April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... to the Moon and Mars. SpaceX founder Elon Musk has proposed such an architecture for his Mars colonisation plan. The leading space faring nations of the world are discussing a possible deep space habitat that...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... without the need for the inhabitants to wear spacesuits. To draw the attention of a reluctant audience to the subject of colonisation, the scien’Twists are already announcing a lottery for one-way trips to the Red Planet. The...
August 2018
Flying to the stars
... the BIS, vol. 37, p. 254, 1984, adsabs.harvard.edu. 6 A. Crowl, J. Hunt, and A. Hein, “Embryo Space Colonisation to Overcome the Interstellar Time Distance Bottleneck,” Journal of the British Interplanetary, vol. 65, pp. 283–285, 2012. 7 A. Sandberg...
November 2018
Why we should not assume that war in space is ‘inevitable’
...even more energy towards an arms race in space. This also gives rise to what I term the ‘creeping colonisation’ of space, around claims regarding resource exploitation and attempts by countries to establish systems to protect themselves against their...
December 2018
Prosperity in the stars
... step, settlement on the Moon,” he says. Like other space visionaries of our age, Ashurbeyli sees the colonisation of space as the guarantor of humanity’s future. But, unlike them, he is not just investing in transportation, he is building a nation...
February 2019
Reflections on the future human condition
..., unless cities are built in interplanetary space (according to plans drawn up by Gerard O’Neill) or other planets are colonised, to provide territories for the surplus population. There is also a symbolic, philosophical reason for the transhumanist...
