Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Galilean Base
In a previous post I explored the feasibility of an industrial base on planet Mercury — an option which on first glance had seemed implausible but on getting down to the detail could be considered...
View ArticleATLAS — Watchmen To The Hour That The Sky Falls In
With the recent meteor explosion over Russia coincident with the safe-passing of asteroid 2012 DA14, and an expectant spectacular approach by comet ISON due towards the end of 2013, one could suggest...
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Quantum Entanglement in Future Communication Technologies
The arXiv blog on MIT Technology Review recently reported a breakthrough ‘Physicists Discover the Secret of Quantum Remote Control’ [1] which led some to comment on whether this could be used as an FTL...
View ArticleMicro Black Holes in the Taillights — Another Glance Back
Recent discussions on the properties of micro-black-holes threw open sufficient question to reignite some interest in the subject (pardon to those exhausted of reading on the subject here at the...
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There will always be a Moon over Tokyo: Fukushima
News this past week on Fukushima has not been exactly reassuring has it. Meanwhile the pro-Nuclear lobby keep counting bananas. Here I’ve gathered together some of the recent news articles on the...
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Space-Mining For Our Fastest Depleting Resource: Helium
Most of us know helium as that cheap inert lighter-than-air gas we use to fill party balloons and inhale to increase voice-pitch as a party trick for kids. However, helium has much more important uses...
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Quantum Metamaterial and the Feasibility of Invisiblity Cloaks
Meta-materials — materials that have been engineered to have properties that absolutely do not exist in nature — such as negative refraction — are unraveling interesting possibilities in future...
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Havens over Hell — Ecosystems of the Venusian Tropopause
In our on-going ambitions to colonise space — and our search for exo-planets in goldilocks zones, it is often overlooked that the most Earth-like area known to us is in our own Solar System, and very...
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Affirmation / ES Technical Note on LHC Collider Safety (p-p/MBH)
Although I have already mentioned a recent technical note on the application of Astronomical Observation to LHC/Collider Safety in comments to other posts here and there, I have not posted specifically...
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The Search for New Physics & CERN’s FCC Future Circular Collider
It is a few years since I posted here on Lifeboat Foundation blogs, but with the news breaking recently of CERN’s plans to build the FCC [1], a new high energy collider to dwarf the groundbreaking...
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Planet Ceres is an ‘ocean world’ with sea water beneath surface, mission finds
Dwarf planet, believed to be a barren space rock, has an ‘extensive reservoir’ of brine beneath its surface, images show. Read more
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Microbes of the Universe — Could our Solar System be rife with Pathogens?
In a recent study of the upper atmosphere of Venus, finding the chemical fingerprint of phosphine has led to speculation that it may be tied to airborne life high in the clouds of our sister planet...
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When Will the Planet Be Too Hot for Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine
These projections just consider how bad it can get around the world in the next 100 years, on current trends. Hard to imagine what will be left for Humanity to fight over in 200 or 300 years. Plague,...
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