Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
# space
A passive, cramped fly-by of Mars just to say we did it is a terrible, no good, very bad idea.
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Early concept drawings from the shuttle program shows us that the end result was full of shortcuts that should not have been taken for the benefit of humanity's space-faring future.
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A simulated mission to Mars finds that one of the biggest potential threats to astronauts outside of radiation will be cabin fever.
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Planetary scientists who want to study plants other than Mars and very unhappy with what they see as NASA's obsession with the red planet.
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Just how realistic is Elon Musk's 80,000 person outpost on Mars given enough time and money?
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A new Singularitarians' approach to space exploration: why bother going to space when we could simulate anything we want after the Singularity?
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To protect ourselves from alien extremes, a NASA plan calls for telepresence from orbit.
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Our nearest stellar neighbor has a planet. Where do we go from here?
# science
Giving until it hurts is a feel good battlecry, not a viable strategy for development and progress.
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A new estimate for the energy required to power a warp drive puts the theoretical technology well within the realm of plausibility.