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...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
...to create a new local branch of human civilization. Colonisation requires the establishment of permanent bases that have the ...between inside and outside space. In the early days of Mars colonisation, we will have an entire new planet to live on, but...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... Blue Origin. But Bezos himself is bullish on space colonisation for similar reasons. His stated desire is to have... Today: “It is important to realise the enormous power of the space-colonisation technique. If we begin to use it soon enough, and if we...
20 November 2019
Insects on Mars, fungi on Venus. Evidence is presented for life on our neighbouring planets
... had oceans and rivers early in its history and, says Joseph, some of those species which, theoretically, colonised the planet during that time, may have adapted and evolved when those oceans evaporated and...
27 July 2020
Radiation-loving fungus could protect astronauts from cosmic rays
...Station (ISS), but also for those with grand plans to colonise other worlds, is therefore a top priority. Thankfully for those... this positive result, the team estimated that for would-be colonisers on the surface of Mars, a 21 centimetre thick layer...
