Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Some weeks ago I talked about the incredible variety of exoplanets, which we have just began to discover. I have also mentioned what we normally find and we can expect to find according to astrophysics, including the most coveted targets – i.e., planets in…
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I have started since a couple of months or so to contribute to a great blog called Serious Wonder, one of the most innovative and amazing web outlets I have found on futurism, new technologies and, yes, my favourite subjects,…
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I have already spoken a few times here about the challenges of worldbulding in SF, both in terms of designing working planetary systems – around a single or binary star – and imagining celestial bodies where life is at least…
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Ever desired to destroy entire planetary systems? Now you can, with the online game Super Planet Crash, available (and playable) at http://www.stefanom.org/spc. You may actually find that building a functioning system is more fun than just provoking celestial catastrophies. And here…
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Every year on April, 12 the world remembers with emotion the amazing achievement of Yuri Gagarin, the first man to watch Earth from space. 53 years ago mankind reached the ultimate frontier. Something to be rightly celebrated and I did it…
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i.e, what else is fake in space? A funny video I watched a few days ago (that I also advise to anybody interested in sci-fi, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9lJh2tBk2s&feature=share) is about all the inconsistencies, errors, when not outward lies, about space we were…
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There is no doubt that crowdsourcing is the buzzword these days, and its recent use in tracking down the mysteriously disappeared MH 370 plane is only one among many. Crowdsourcing is “the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content…
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2015 NASA budget – as disclosed in these day by the White House – (http://www.space.com/24911-nasa-2015-budget-highlights.html) – amounts at $17.5 billion to NASA, about $200 million less than 2014 but still enough for one thing or two. Especially if some private…
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Writing a summary of the human civilisation that spans from the Australopitecus and its peers to the moment history truly starts is a task that would scare the bravest of the scholars, no matter how confident – or reckless –…
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I have been asked by a friend to name 10 books – no more, no less – I will take with me should I go to live in outer space and not getting back to the Earth any time soon…
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