May 2025
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier
... how speculative fiction has long engaged with the ethics of transforming alien worlds. He traces the origins of terraforming narratives from the early 20th century, focusing on how they evolved alongside environmental movements and shifting...
18 July 2017
Why the space programme needs civil engineers
... the future, there are already patents and designs in place, which civil engineers will be helping with. Terraforming Terraforming is the process of making another planet hospitable for human life. We’ve all seen it in movies and it is not something...
June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
... those ventures for which the technology does not yet exist to an appropriate standard of certainty and reliability: terraforming of alien biospheres, the physical colonisation of other planets and the ability to mine, refine and return minerals...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
...a Moon-to-Earth space elevator system. Artist s concept of a terraformed Mars. Space debris and cosmic defence We now have the ‘...create remarkable new infrastructure and colonies on the Moon, terraform Mars so that it could truly sustain life in the...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... was always the extra-stratospheric solo return glide at supersonic speed. Terraforming In the same vein, the battle of principle continues for the followers of Martian terraforming. They have already raised funds for ‘seeding’ synthetic photo...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
...out by the hundred from a Big F***ing Rocket (BFR), to terraform the planet as fast as we can. In the meantime, we’ll ....” What then of the even broader question of terraforming? Recent history has demonstrated that technological milestones may ...
