NASA Plans To Manufacture Solar Cells On Moon, From Scratch
NASA wants new solar cells to sport a “Made on the Moon” label, using only materials harvested from the Moon.
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SpinLaunch Successfully Throws A 10-Meter Dart Toward Space
It’s not like we are doing any mining for exotic materials on the Moon or Mars, so I suspect that this interesting intellectual capital might sit on a shelf for a few decades.
Seasteading & Space Colonization: Environmental & Policy Impacts, Part 2
In part 1 of this article, I covered the history of attempts at micronations, seasteading, and and possible space colonization. All of that took so long to adequately introduce, that it really didn’t make sense to cram much more into one article, so here we are at Part 2 to … [continued]
Seasteading & Space Colonization: Environmental & Policy Impacts, Part 1
Throughout history, there have been people who didn’t like the way things were in the land where they lived. Sometimes it was religious oppression that drove them away to start their own societies, although the most famous examples (the Pilgrims) ironically denied religious freedom to the natives who they moved … [continued]
Loon, Google’s Balloon-Based Internet Scheme, Loses Altitude
Loon is a Google startup that wanted to bring internet connectivity to remote areas using helium balloons. This month, Google is shutting it down.
