June 2015
The new space ethics: COSPAR, Planetary Protection and beyond
...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 and resources from other celestial...
February 2016
Space – Overcoming Our Limitations
...matter of money, but in no way block the route to space colonisation. What does impede humanity’s advancement into the future are our own...dreaming, his ardent belief in the idea that space colonisation is not only our destiny but our indelible right, ...
May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
... to the problems of transferring Earth’s industry into space without the use of rockets, as well as the development and colonisation of other planets. Since then, I have done a lot of work, creating my own scientific and design school, which...
October 2024
Space industry trajectory under the spotlight of cultural anthropology
... Humankind is faced with two very different utopian demands. The first is the demand to explore outer space. To colonise. To ensure humanity’s future. To search. To learn. To acquire new resources and conduct research. The second is the demand...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
... being demonstrated on ground may offer the possibility of hastening the sustainability of deep space missions and planetary colonisation. On Earth the possibility of printing organs using stem cells may open the unique opportunity to replace...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... the world, the irreversible environmental damage of which we are now trying to limit. What about colonising Mars? The pro-colonisation stance uses overly-simplistic arguments to support its case, such as the unnecessarily gloomy idea that...
