Opportunity & risk. How will we find the first evidence of extra-terrestrial life? Are we safe from asteroid impacts now?
Nov 30th: Getting Closer
Steve Nerlich Archive
Nov 14th: Practicalities
Economics in the final frontier. Is in situ resource utilization really worth the trouble? What exactly is the space economy?
Oct 23rd: Embracing Your Inner Robot
Oct 10th: How To Live Longer & Talk To Aliens
Time travel & aliens. We’re all going to die. Could future science save us? Why there’s a universe of potentially habitable worlds, but no-one’s talking?
Sep 21st: Robots And Us
Robots are doing it for themselves. What kind of robots will we send to other star systems? Do we really need to send humans into space?
Sep 12th: Planets
Things that orbit the Sun and clear their orbits. So what happens when worlds collide? Why is Mars’ sky red?
Aug 29th: Infrastructure
Building the future! Accommodation and travel. How will we build a lunar base? Will travel to Mars ever become routine?
Aug 14th: Asteroid Mining On The Cheap
Jul 24th: Fantastic Physics Formulas: Orbit & Entropy
Orbits and entropy. Blowing off some steam. Cheap Astronomy discuss about the orbit equation and Entropy and the Inequality of Clausius
Jul 10th: Articles On Particles
Small things, very small rocks, particular rocks, so what’s a particle? And what sort of Astronomy is done on the ISS?