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Science fiction couldn’t exist without a means of quickly reaching distant stars. Some authors accomplish that by using wormholes, hyperspace or any other method of reaching a destination without actually traveling through the space separating the point of departure from said destination. Many, however, use faster than light travel. I’m going to leave the technological […]

The article about Mars from this month’s National Geographic Magazine somehow managed to make me suddenly realize that we’re really there, wandering around on Mars and taking pictures at ground level. By “we” I mean humanity, even if only through machines. This is not news, of course. As far as rovers are concerned, Pathfinder has […]

Let me start with the well-known 1% theory, and use a very conservative estimate for it too. Currently, it is estimated that the Milky Way contains up to 500 billion stars, but I’ll use 100 billion to illustrate a worst case scenario. Let’s say we have 100 billion stars in our galaxy. If 1% of […]