The exploration of space is very important to the future of mankind, there are countless resources in the asteroid belt and the outer planets. Even the Moon has many Helium 3 deposits, this could be used by colonists. And the mineral resources in the asteroid belt that would make any miner a trillionaire. This is … Read more
Strange things are waiting out in space. When are we going to explore them? There are many strange things waiting out in space for us to find them. But we need to start concentrating more on space travel and this will lead us to our future as a space-faring civilization. We can not just stay … Read more
Amazing sights and possibilities in space There are some amazing sights in space that we could discover in time if we could get there. This picture shows a binary star system in deep space. This is surrounded by a massive cloud of debris and dust. This could possibly create a new solar system with planets … Read more
There is such a commotion around the exoplanets that have been discovered 39 light years from Earth, but this is way too far away for humans to reach it. Traveling at 200,000,000 miles per hour, it would take 130 years to reach the system. If you were in an infinite rocket, traveling at 90,000 miles … Read more
One way that we could get to another planet 500 light-years away without warp drive is a interstellar ram-scoop ship. This would allow us to reach an exoplanet in 12 years ship time. But 500 years would pass on Earth. This could be used to reach the center of the Milky Way Galaxy in 21 … Read more
The International Space Station has migrated all of its computers from Windows XP to Debian GNU/Linux 6.0. This will greatly add to the security of the computers on the ISS and although it requires retraining Cosmonauts in the use of the computers; this will have many benefits in the long run. Linux is more secure … Read more
The Universe is a simulation; that is the theory that is taking the scientific world by storm. But how could you simulate the entire Universe with a computer? You would need a computer the size of the Universe to contain the data concerning the spin state of every electron in the Universe as well as … Read more
The space race is heating up, there are a few private enterprise spacecraft that have been unveiled and the Moon looks like a likely destination in the future. In the 1980`s we had a more hopeful vision of the future, it did not include terrorism and constant warfare. But with the successful docking of the … Read more
The colonization of the planet Mars will not be a quick process despite movies like Red Planet that displayed a terraforming method that used algae to create oxygen in the atmosphere. That could work, but it would not be a very fast process. With the recent announcement of plans for asteroid mining sometime in the … Read more
The Stop Online Piracy Act is getting continued attention from Internet users like Chris Pirillo and others that are warning as many people as possible about this danger to Internet freedom that we face. The Muslim countries are trying this as well, they want to censor their web to stop porn and depravity from deprecating … Read more
Space colonization in the year 10 trillion I watched an interesting documentary about life in the future and they were talking about how humans would survive in the distant future trying to avoid entropy, or the heat death of the Universe. They ended up with space stations in very close orbit around a white dwarf … Read more
NASA has announced that they have long term plans to build a spaceship capable of travelling to other planets. They want to investigate other forms of propulsion, such as electricity. As storing Hydrogen for long periods is apparently not the right thing to do. If we were not wasting billions of dollars on a pointless … Read more