Tardigrades can survive an extremely broad range of environments, including: Temperatures between -272°C (a degree above absolute zero) and 150°C. Pressures between a hard vacuum and 6000 atmospheres (six times the pressure at the bottom at the Mariana trench). 10 … Continued
First of all, commercializing Mars is not the point – colonizing Mars and becoming multiplanetary is good in itself. That being said, anything that’s self-sustaining and self-replicating grows exponentially to fill all available space. In the case of space, that’s a … Continued
One common criticism of Elon Musk goes like this: “Musk is spreading himself too thin in ten thousand different projects, dividing his attention and endangering success in the ones that already seem to be on a good track. He should … Continued
Humanity will probably not remain a single species in the future. There’s a thing called the founder effect, which “…occurs when a small group of migrants that is not genetically representative of the ancestral population settles in a new area”. You … Continued
When the world’s most valuable company presents a new product, I expect it to be a Martian colonial module, a fusion reactor or a hyperdrive, not a touch band to add emoji to messages half a second faster. There are multiple kinds … Continued
Only hours ago, China has landed a rover on the Moon. This calls for two major points to be made.