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.
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Humanity seems to be in a rut. Left bored, aimless, and engaging in self-destructive behaviors, we’re looking for the next big thing. And the best place to find it might be off this planet.
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NASA appears to be sick and tired of having to wait until the mid-2020s to return to the Moon on a future rocket that will be inferior to the private ones already flying, and easily lapped by ones currently being built.
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Space is becoming a growing commercial industry. And we need to start heavily investing in it to save ourselves from our worst decision makers.
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We need big ideas if we're going to successfully transition to a post-industrial society.
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A proposal for a Martian habitat wants to use the power of water for both structural support and radiation shielding.
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Yuri Milner wants to explore Alpha Centauri with a tiny spaceship propelled by the biggest and most powerful laser cannon ever built. That may be a lot harder than it sounds.
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When not promising us cities on Triton in ten years, the media seems befuddled by and incredulous of the most conservative and realistic plans for space exploration.
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Could the far future see a market for selling entire planets not too dissimilar from today's real estate market?
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Someone should tell Elon Musk that a nuclear bombardment of Mars into habitability won't be much of a shortcut.
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New Horizons' flyby of Pluto let us see a brand new world that doesn't fit in our conventional categories, and reminded us that at our heart, we're explorers, not drones.