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A Private Race to Mars?
Last Summer the folks at Mars One announced plans to land humans on Mars by 2023. Now it appears Dennis Tito will announce an American effort to get humans to Mars by 2018. Some might remember him as the first space … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged exploration, living on mars, mars base, Missions, Space Settlement
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Those Suicidal Pilgrims
Fox News recently ran a piece on plans by Mars One to launch one-way missions to Mars, with the first arrival in 2023: Mars One Plans Suicide Mission to Red Planet for 2023. The idea is that the astronauts are emigres, … Continue reading
Bright Young Minds
It was my pleasure this afternoon to speak to the After School Writing Club at Travis Elementary in Houston, TX. I was invited by a fourth grade fan of our book (thanks, Anthony!), and enjoyed the opportunity to speak to them … Continue reading
No Need to “Fall Back” on Mars
If you remembered to set your clocks last night to “fall back” for the return to standard time, then you enjoyed an extra hour of sleep this morning. ABC News makes some dubious claims in a recent article, Daylight Savings Time Ends … Continue reading
To Mars and Back…Sorta
The crew of the Mars500 simulation emerged today in Moscow from 520 days of isolation that began June 3, 2010. The primary purpose of this simulation was to evaluate a variety of physical and mental impacts of a long-duration space … Continue reading
Posted in In the Shadow of Ares
Tagged exploration, In the Shadow of Ares, living on mars, Missions, settlement, technology
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Still a Jerk
Over the last couple of weeks a video of a marriage proposal at the Chicago Comic Con got a lot of hits. That’s because the couple was blessed by none other than Patrick Stewart, the actor who made quite a career … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction
Tagged Apollo, exploration, living on mars, Mars, mars base, mars colony, Missions, Moon, Science Fiction, settlement, Space Settlement
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Islands in the sky?
Billionaire Pay Pal co-founder Peter Thiel has apparently donated $1.25 million to the Seasteading Institute, an organization seeking to build floating nation-states that would be able to experiment with innovative political and social systems. Specifically libertarian political systems. Of course, that’s part of … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, In the Shadow of Ares
Tagged Capitalism, In the Shadow of Ares, Libertarianism, living on mars, settlement
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Traveling Light
3-D printing may be more advanced than I had thought: I am a little bit skeptical. For example, how does the optical scanner determine the dimensions and configuration of individual internal parts, for which there is no line of sight? … Continue reading
The End, or a New Beginning?
NASA has posted the following image of the return of the Space Shuttle Atlantis to Earth earlier this week: Taken from the International Space Station, it’s a unique view of the craft’s fiery re-entry through Earth’s atmosphere. Soon thereafter, Texas … Continue reading
Mars Needs…More Movies
I took the family to see Mars Needs Moms Friday, and for the most part the trepidation I expressed in an earlier post was unwarranted. Despite some flat/cheesy dialogue I felt the screenplay did a nice job of extending a 700-word … Continue reading
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Tagged living on mars, mars base, mars colony, Mars movies, Mars Needs Moms, Science Fiction
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