May 2019
The inadequacies and dangers of modern rocket technology
... will irrevocably ‘eat’ the biosphere in just two to three generations. Only the provision of an ecological niche to the technosphere outside the biosphere will ensure, for the latter, preservation and development according to the laws and...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... begun, with the launch of Telstar 1. In the decades that followed, this commercialisation of space quickly inflated our technosphere, and its associated sphere of human economic activity, as far as geostationary orbit (36,000 km above the planet...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... behind the Arizona-based Biosphere 2 project of the 1990s. The Biospherians studied the interaction of the human technosphere with its supporting biosphere in order to inform projects both to make our cities sustainable on Earth, and to construct...
