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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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Panspermia is a somewhat out there hypothesis. But it deserves a serious investigation, not just quick dismissals citing its origins.
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Our nearest stellar neighbor has a planet. Where do we go from here?
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A new paper argues that nothing ever really falls into a black hole thanks to extreme time dilation and frame dragging.
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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.
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Politicians want splashy headlines and photo ops with flag-planting moments and that's enough for them. This is exactly why they shouldn't set scientific missions.
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The idea that halting science and exploration until we fix all the world's ills is extremely popular. It's also extremely ignorant and self-sabotaging.