Tag Archives: Mars

If you want to see humans begin to explore the Solar System within our lifetime, then you are probably aware that the solar panels used to generate electricity for many current spacecraft are never going to be able to provide enough power for us to do so.  An alternative that …

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/mars-buried-water-ice-subsurface-geology-astronauts-science/ If this analysis is confirmed, then we suddenly have prime targets for human landing sites.  We would also have a huge bump up in the odds that a sustainable Mars Outpost and/or eventual Mars Colony could be established? I know I’m getting way ahead of things but I’m already …

  If you think human starships traveling to other stars is something just for science fiction or is at best, something far in our future, then check out the great article at NextBigFuture.com that shows real science that is working to make this a reality in our lifetime.  These scientists …

http://nautil.us/blog/how-to-give-mars-an-atmosphere-maybe This article is interesting but leaves out some details: Power: It mentions that “An inflatable structure can generate a magnetic dipole field at a level of perhaps 1 or 2 Tesla (a unit that measures the strength of a magnetic field) as an active shield against the solar wind. …

Should humans devote most of our resources to the development of a colony on the Moon, Mars or towards the utilization of Asteroid resources?  Space advocates debated which location in space should be our primary focus at this week’s “New Space Age” conference at Seattle’s Museum of Flight. Geekwire.com reported on the …

This article offers an interesting perspective from an Electrical engineering grad student at Stanford University: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-the-next-100-years-of-engineering-may-look-like_us_59f117fae4b09812b938c689 I think the author definitely should have put more time and emphasis on the importance of nanotechnology (very briefly mentioned).  I also note that he fully excluded the many engineering challenges that will undoubtedly …

If I could ever sit down with Bill Gates, I’d tell him “Give me 10 minutes of your time and I’ll tell you how you can turn your current paragraph or two mention in history into something greater than even Alexander the Great or Ghengis Khan. Listen to me and …