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 …
Read More »NASA Reports Huge Water Deposits On Mars
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 …
Read More »Mach Effect Propulsion – A Real Plan to Visit A Planet Orbiting Another Star
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 …
Read More »Creating an Artificial Martian Magnetosphere to Start Terraforming
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. …
Read More »Space Advocates Debate Moon vs Mars vs Asteroids as Mankind’s Future Destinations
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 …
Read More »The Next 100 Years of Engineering
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 …
Read More »Creating a Second Planet For Humanity: Terraforming Mars
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 …
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