Space is big, really big, really, really, really big! So big that in order to travel to the closest solar system to our own, Alpha Centauri A in an Apollo space craft, it would take over 120,000 years! Rockets may work in our own solar system, but if we are ever going to get out […]
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What Would Aliens Look Like?
First, I would like to say that I am no alienatoligist or expert on this subject (if such a person exists) and all of my “research” is pretty much speculation and wikipediaing. And so, without further adue, what would intelligent, technologically advanced aliens look like? Well, lets start with a few assumptions: Aliens Will Live […]
Can We Green The Australian Desert?
Why Would We Want To Green The Desert? Greening the Australian desert would be the greatest terraforming feat ever. Doing so would open up millions of kilometres of land to agriculture and industry. It would create many new rivers, lakes and perhaps even an inland sea, allowing multiple new cities to be built. It would […]
CME: A Doomsday in Your Lifetime?
What the Hell is a CME? CME stands for coronal mass ejection, a coronal mass ejection is an eruption of electrons and protons (plasma) from the surface of the sun often following a solar flare (as seen below). Coronal mass ejections usually occur during the solar maximum, the more active phase in the suns eleven […]
Infinite Energy: Harnessing the Power of the Sun
So you want to harness the full power of the sun? Well the unrealistic and complicated solution is to create a Dyson Swarm. A Dyson Swarm is a gargantuan collection of solar panels orbiting in space adjacent to the sun. It is possible to build, but you need a couple trillion (or perhaps quadrillion) dollars, […]
