October 2024
Space exploration remains a crucial endeavour for humanity
...These include costs, health risks and technological obstacles. Ethical and legal considerations regarding space colonisation, resource utilisation and celestial environmental impact require careful examination and international cooperation. While the...
October 2024
Cinema and extraterrestrial archaeology
... rock formations were used as the setting for the film Total Recall and in the context of a human colonisation of Mars, the excavation of galleries under the Pyramid Mountain gave access to a gigantic reactor built by an alien civilisation...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
...’t quit birth control in orbit. Space settlement enthusiasts envision a time in the near future when people will colonise space, the Moon and Mars. But for an enduring population we will need to overcome many challenges, key...
May 2025
Mythologies of Outer Space - A new perspective on the final frontier
... alongside environmental movements and shifting political ideologies. Pak critiques contemporary enthusiasm for space colonisation – particularly among tech entrepreneurs like Elon Musk – who frame interplanetary settlement as a solution to Earth...
May 2025
A time zone for the Moon
...are expected to be symmetrically connected to the Moon by space elevators, providing two extremely interesting foci for mass colonisation of the lunar environment. In practice, it will be more convenient to carry out all basic navigation calculations...
April 2026
Spaceflight and the radiation problem
... from the radiation, but robots don’t get cancer, consume oxygen or tire. The servants of deep space colonisation will be entirely synthetic and it will be the human beings that benefit. About the author Steven Cutts...
