January 2020
Old rocks, new tricks - a lunar link to modern volcanology
...reading the playbook: the disequilibrium that occurs in nature. Building kinetics and kinematics into our understanding of ...the same gravity underpinning the dynamic process. Using this natural phenomenon as a way of understanding magma pathways has ...
August 2020
Interplanetary spaceflight and restorative justice
...flight measures to minimise conflict such as careful crew selection are possible, the unpredictable and pioneering nature of interplanetary spaceflight means that it is difficult to foresee and eliminate conflict entirely. Analogue studies which seek...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... United States is at war against China in the Western Pacific Ocean. If some US satellites start failing, is this due to natural causes (e.g. solar flares or micrometeorites) or hostile intent? One can assume that China attacked these satellites, but...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
...scientific mission. The site was selected not only for the natural sinkhole that would support the 305 m dish, but ... Observatory and the Fermi Space Telescope announced in the journal Nature Astronomy the discovery of what they called a “gamma-ray...
June 2022
Pandemic parallels
... for self-isolation during Covid-19. The enforced, compulsory nature of lockdown stands as a sharp contrast since individuals were...spaceflight participants undergo. This compares with the inherent nature of confinement which is part of the overall ...
January 2023
Is human space exploration DOOMED?
...of evolution Intelligent life, we can presume, is the natural result of evolution occurring in expanding metagalaxies In 1975, ... major and minor scales in its emissions. The nature of Kadomtsev and Lefebvre’s thoughts is extremely speculative but...
