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One of the most destructive and hardest to defend against weapons we could build would be an inert slug of exotic alloys that does its damage using nothing but speed. A lot of speed.
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All you need to know about how hard it is to land on Mars is that rocket scientists call it "seven minutes of terror."
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Are we looking at a repeat of the Space Race, this time against China?
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Development wonks want entrepreneurs trying to start a new age of space exploration to abandon their effort and throw good money after bad at the developing world.
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Antimatter will need to be the fuel of the future if we want technology like relativistic spaceships and black hole reactors.
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Space entrepreneurs are excited about the promise of asteroid mining. But there are a lot of big, complicated questions they'll have to answer before we know if they can ever make a profit from it.
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If an alien civilization is advanced and powerful enough, could evidence of their existence be written on a galactic scale?
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Space exploration and long term settlements of alien worlds might actually be a recipe for creating new countries with their own cultures, languages, and armed forces.
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Playboy wants an adults-only luxury hotel in space. This is a great idea and not because of the implication.
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Contrary to popular belief, the Apollo program wasn't all that popular when it was underway.