March 2016
Multi-planet Civilizations in Popular Culture
... derived from mythological archetypes-arguably helping us to process our past, as opposed to a possible future-and famously set in ‘a galaxy far, far away’, with no planet Earth even mentioned. Both of these classics, however, directly and indirectly...
October 2018
The ethics of space exploration
... elements in a barren yet beautiful landscape. In my young mind, the Universe was home to all sorts of planets, stars, galaxies and black holes. It had produced life on our own blue planet but could also harbour life...
February 2021
On the nature of spacepower
As Douglas Adams notes in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, “Space is big. Really big.” Although humanity’s space aspirations may be great, most of our space activities in the ...
May 2021
Visions of beating gravity
... did the universe start? What are space, time and energy? Is gravity an emerging phenomenon? How do clusters of galaxies evolve? Does a black hole have an edge? Questions like these led me to study astronomy and computer science...
