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Giving Mars A New Magnetic Field | Vol. 4 / No 19.2

March 7, 2017 RFB Futurism

Last week, at a NASA Planetary Science Division (PSD) workshop, Jim Green, the PSD’s director, gave a brief lecture that raised more than a few eyebrows. Mostly because what it suggested was (a) very science fictiony-sounding and (b) not totally impossible.
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Artificial Gravity? Sure, But It’ll Cost You | Vol. 4 / No. 5.3

November 30, 2016 RFB Futurism

The latest news about why maybe we don’t want to spend too much time in microgravity is out, and the answer’s pretty awful: potential blindness. Even if we’re not 100% on the mechanism just yet — fluid buildup, yes, but what kind of fluid? — the obvious answer is artificial gravity. The problem though? You guessed it: cash.
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Elon Musk’s Plan to Colonize Mars | Vol. 3 / No 48.3

September 28, 2016 RFB Futurism

Yesterday, Elon Musk played to a packed room at IAC2016 to explain how, in his terms, Humanity is going to become a “multiplanetary species.” The long and short of it: by thinking big. Musk framed the […]

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Is Ray Kurzweil Out To Lunch? | Vol. 3 / No. 39.3

July 27, 2016 RFB Answers to Random Questions

Ray Kurweil, Futurist | Photo: Ed Schipul, CC BY-SA 2.0 *** Elle sent me this article yesterday by Matt Novak over at Gizmodo’s Paleofuture blog. It’s called “Ray Kurzweil Is Talking Bullshit Again,” and it argues […]

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What Happens Next? | Vol. 3 / No. 35.2

June 28, 2016 RFB Futurism

Photo: NASA It’s an interesting question that’s being asked more and more these days: what happens when the International Space Station is too old to use? Originally designed to run only through 2020, two years […]

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“On Being the Right Size” by  J. B. S. Haldane | Vol. 3 / No. 34.2

June 21, 2016 RFB Answers to Random Questions

Photo: “Me and Haldane,” by Sage Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0 *** I’ve written about J. B. S. Haldane here before, mainly because of his astounding prescience in the book Daedalus, or, Science and the Future. […]

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The Asteroid Mining Future | Vol. 3 / No. 31.2

June 7, 2016 RFB Futurism

Image: NASA *** It’s probably coming sooner than you think: private companies headed out to space to grab what resources they can in our solar system’s wild wild west. But it may not be coming […]

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On Not Inviting Theologians To Science Conferences | Vol. 3 / No. 29.5

May 27, 2016 RFB Futurism

They’d be like these, but standardized | Photo: Joseph Elsbernd, CC BY-SA 2.0 Elle is off this week (sorry!) so I’m filling in with a not-Feminist Friday post because something caught my mayfly-lifespan of an attention span […]

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A World First: SpaceX Returns First Stage | Vol. 3 / No. 8.2

December 21, 2015December 22, 2015 RFB Futurism

SpaceX just did something nobody has ever done before. In an absolutely spectacular launch on the winter solstice, the company not only returned to flight after a half-year hiatus, they did so in style, for […]

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Stop Saying Blue Origin “Beat” SpaceX | Vol. 3 / No. 4.2

November 24, 2015November 25, 2015 RFB Futurism

This morning everybody and their dog is reporting on the achievement of Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket company, but they’re doing it wrong. *** “Jeff Bezos beats Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the reusable rocket race” […]

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