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Tag: Manned mission to Mars

Overpopulation Nation? We need a Sea Station!

Call it one of those quirky fateful twists – as I started up my truck this morning, the local radio was airing an interview with Frank Carini from EcoRI News (my favorite environmental watchdog) which was tackling the controversial subject of overpopulation. I haven’t written about this in some time, so figured that in the…

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displacement…where will we go?

Amidst the typical news shenanigans as of late, out crept a nice CNN piece on population displacement due to impending climate change: https://www.cnn.com/2015/11/09/world/climate-change-create-poor-homeless/index.html. These are the types of issues that keep me up at night, and hopefully are keeping others up at night too. It’s very easy to get wrapped up in the propaganda of climate…

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life on Mars? does it matter?

NASA’s ‘Curiosity’ is slated to land on the Red Planet on August 6th. From the perspective of an explorer/innovator, this is indeed fascinating, and a true demonstrative step towards a future capacity to send a manned ship or probe. From a public pragmatist perspective, the question of justifying funds for this mission during our current…

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where will we humans play next – Mars?

A recent CNN piece discussed the future of NASA, with a particular focus on the ‘spark’ that has been long since lost in the program. As it is argued, the early excitement in NASA came from human venturing to a new frontier for the first time – we were leaving this planet and looking to…

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