Archive for the ‘space’ category: Page 980
Jul 1, 2015
Why Send Humans to Space When We Can Send Robots? — Daniel Oberhaus | Motherboard
Posted by Seb in categories: robotics/AI, space, space travel
“The first marketable, personal computers in the late 70s came about after almost 40 years of research and development, which created the technology at public expense. One of the peculiarities, if you’d like, of our system of innovation and development is that it’s radically anti-capitalist in many ways…People who paid taxes in the 50s and 60s may not have known it, but they were creating what was ultimately marketed by Apple. But they don’t get any of the profit. I think that’s a social pathology and the same carries over into space.” Read more
[The Washington Post] The explosion was the third failed attempt to resupply the space station with cargo in recent months.
Jun 28, 2015
What It Will Take for Humans to Live on the Moon — Bryan Lufkin | Gizmodo
Posted by Seb in categories: space, space travel
“We (“we” meaning robots, at least at first) need to do lots of lunar experiments. What’s the nature of the Moon’s poles? Where is the water stored? We can answer those questions using robots—a couple of surface rovers, like Curiosity on Mars. These rovers can measure temperatures, slopes, surface properties, and the measurements of existing ice. Once we figure out a way to locate this vital resource on the Moon, the real progress can begin.” Read more
Jun 25, 2015
DARPA: We Are Engineering the Organisms That Will Terraform Mars
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: bioengineering, environmental, futurism, military, space
The Pentagon is working on technology that will allow it to engineer a new organism within a day of it being found in the wild.
Jun 24, 2015
NASA Plans To Use Nukes On Potential Doomsday Asteroid
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: existential risks, space
If NASA has its way, the human race won’t be going the way of the dinosaurs any time soon.
The space agency is teaming up with the National Nuclear Security Administration to work on a planetary defense plan to deflect a potential doomsday asteroid so it doesn’t strike Earth, according to The New York Times.
Jun 24, 2015
Dwarf Galaxies Loom Large in Quest for Dark Matter
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: anti-gravity, astronomy, cosmology, energy, general relativity, particle physics, space
“In its inaugural year of observations, the Dark Energy Survey has already turned up at least eight objects that look to be new satellite dwarf galaxies of the Milky Way.”
Jun 23, 2015
Why Scientists Have Been Scared of Space Germs for Almost 50 Years
Posted by Matthew Holt in categories: biotech/medical, space
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty was one of the few things the U.S. and the Soviet Union managed to agree on at the height of the Cold War. Among other things, it forbid both nations from bringing space microbes back to Earth, or spreading Earth germs to other planets.
Jun 21, 2015
Are Any of These Fictional Space Habitats Actually Possible?
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: futurism, space
Humanity’s future in space very much in the planning stages. Will we float among the stars in crazy spaceships? Will we set up small camps that sprawl into townships that grow into cities, or is an orbital mothership more human friendly? The question is, could any of these really be possible? Or do they deserve to be forever enshrined as sci-fi fever dreams?
Jun 18, 2015
What’s Stopping Us from Building Cities in Space? No, It’s Not Tech.
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: futurism, space
The US has a plan for Americans to live in space. In 2012, the National Research Council was commissioned by Congress to roadmap the future of human space exploration. Last June, the team published its findings in a massive report, which called for several action steps to be taken immediately. One year later, are we on track?
