Gerard K. O’Neill's name might not ring a bell for many of us, but he certainly is one of the most significant names in the world of physics and space sciences. Gerard was an American physicist whose ideologies resonated with the concept of Space Manufacturing and Space Colonization as early as 1969.
He visualized establishment of a space manufacturing…
You'd be forgiven for falling in love with the beauty of natural phenomenon all around us, even those outside our direct line of sight, far out in the observable universe. Most agree that there is beauty, in some form or the other, in almost everything that the laws of physics help facilitate. But few people…
Mankind has been unrelenting in its efforts to search for extra-terrestrial life. Somehow, asking 'Are we alone?' generates a unique emotion every time you bring it up. Innumerable spacecrafts have been deployed to look for life (more than 150 at last count) and research the surface and atmospheric conditions of worlds yet unexplored.
The…
Thanks to multiple billion years of evolution, the human race has now become indomitable in a million ways. Homo Sapiens have stayed on the face of this planet for 200,000 years, having achieved the unique position of altering the planet as we want. We're ahead of every other species by a huge margin, and our prowess…
Is our life real? Are we truly living? Or are we just segments of computer code? Wake up Neo.
There's isn't just one answer to this. In fact, we currently do not have a perfect answer. Physicists are engaged in a deep debate on the nature of our reality, with strong arguments supporting the…
Mars is undeniably our most famous celestial object. The red planet is a constant center of attention for both scientists and space enthusiasts. A major reason this is so is because of the planet's striking similarities with Earth. While we've sent a lot of robots to Mars to learn more, someday, humans too will set foot…
"The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor Life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit? Yes. Settle? Not yet".
- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A vision of the Human Future in Space
Earth's demise is inevitable. In the last few…
While discussing the probability of interstellar travel, there exists a “giggle factor”, basically signifying how many scientists scoff upon the idea of travelling light years to reach other stars. In fact, according to Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity, no usable information can travel faster than light locally, and hence it would take centuries to millennia…