#space exploration
# space
NASA is looking to fix its problems and gear up for sustainable missions. But the actual numbers leave much to be desired.
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If NASA was funded as well as most Americans think it is, we would live in an amazing world straight out of our retrofuturistic dreams.
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Whether we like it or not, military hardware is going to be in space. It's just a question of when and what.
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Singularitarians think they figured out the perfect way to travel through space after they upload their minds to machines.
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If we'll ever meaningfully explore space, the first thing we need is a vision from our leaders that stretches beyond just winning the next election.
# space
The IIS is an engineering marvel and one of humanity's biggest accomplishments. Unfortunately, its potential is being wasted and its future is being horribly mismanaged.
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How hard would it be to develop space travel on a small, Earth-sized planet with rings posing a constant navigational hazard?
# tech
Robots are a critical component of space exploration. But they're just that, a component.
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Time calls the Ares rocket one of this year's best inventions. The problem is that nothing about Ares is actually new or inventive...
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The biggest problem with creating a warp drive is coming up with the energy to power one, even for a moment.
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America won the space race and the Cold War. Now, its access to space will be controlled by the whims of the country it defeated thanks to its myopic politicians.
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The coldest place in our solar system isn't somewhere in the outer reaches of the Oort Cloud. It's a network of craters on the Moon.
# space
Current plans for our return to the Moon seem a little too vague to be successful.
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One of the weirdest extrasolar planets we've found so far is a superheated puffball that orbits its star in the wrong direction.
# space
Thanks to budget constraints and slow-walking replacement vehicles, NASA is about to left without a way to get humans in orbit without paying Russia for a ride.
