November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
... be unlike anything ever attempted in human history. While faster-than-light ‘warp drives’ are a popular staple of science fiction and allow protagonists to flit from star system to star system in the time it takes for a commercial break...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... the enormous influence of the media when trying to communicate the news to the public! Contrary to popular science fiction films that typically depict a direct first contact of an extraterrestrial civilisation with humanity, the real situation very...
November 2019
Cosmo’s adventures in animated edutainment
...may share similarities with Mark Watney in Andy Weir’s science fiction novel and movie, but Cosmo’s story and mission hold...Studio drives the craft behind Cosmo’s animated storytelling, rocket science is provided by the education team at the Space ...
January 2021
Time to change our relationship with space?
...Excursion Module (LEM), and of TV shows and science fiction novels that found their niche against this setting.... condemned to operate in an artificial environment. No matter what science fiction might tease you with, there is not one square kilometre ...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
...Sir Arthur Clarke was fond of quoting his fellow science fiction writer Larry Niven and he often cited Niven’s famous...of what might be done to address cosmic hazards. Clearly more science and investigation is needed - but we are not ostriches that ...
October 2017
Saving geostationary orbit
... by Arthur C. Clarke in a 1945 article published in Wireless World magazine, in which the then naval officer and science fiction author proposed their use to create a global communications system. Based on earlier work by a largely forgotten Slovene...
