February 2016
Protecting Earth from cosmic disasters
... atmosphere, on the surface and in water assessing expected aftermath of the explosions for surface infrastructure and the biosphere. The HSS forecasts the movements of potentially dangerous bodies during only a few solar revolutions because the...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
..., when a comet nucleus a few kilometres in diameter exploded over North America. As a result of this explosion, the continent’s biosphere was scorched and the ancient Clovis civilisation was destroyed. Impact zones in these cases may exceed...
January 2023
Is human space exploration DOOMED?
... unique to our observable universe, we are doomed to isolation. But if our observable universe contains many such biospheres, there would be a real possibility of encountering fellow intelligent beings. In the former scenario, we will encounter post...
February 2016
Shifting Space Perspectives: Artistic Research as Connective Research Area
... and fluids. Living architecture life support In continuing this thread of a looped system reflecting the basis of the biosphere we live in, the project Medusa [8] went a step further in integrating living systems into architecture. Medusa too was...
November 2018
Being human in space
..., a scapegoat is chosen on whom all frustration and anger is projected. As a result, this person tends to become isolated. In Biosphere 2 - an experiment conducted in the mid-1990s, where an entirely curated and sealed-off eco-system was created...
February 2019
Reflections on the future human condition
..., then stations; to begin with and until now, the preferred solution has been to reconstruct an Earth-type biosphere on a reduced scale, inside which a human can survive and even live for several months, without having...
