Due to the current pandemic, the Mars Society conference was held virtually this year. It was also free. Consequently, a conference that peaked at 2000 people and had dropped to under 800 in recent years reached 10,000 people. Further, Elon Musk's talk Friday evening was picked up in some part by various YouTube and media channels, which have shown it collectively over 100 thousand times.
As usual, it takes the team a few weeks to get all the videos edited and loaded. The slides of my two talks this year are now on the Videos page of this site. One is on paraterraforming in practical terms, with equal parts biology and architecture addressed. The second talk on Spaceports addresses the problem of where to safely harbor SpaceX starship vehicles in orbit or deep space. It gets into cyclers, asteroid colonies, LEO refueling hubs, and other vehicles built on a very affordable, scalable system.
Posted from my blog with SteemPress : https://macroinvent.com/2020/10/19/mars-society-talks-2020/