This is a copy of a post I made for my first imgur cakeday (which means the first anniversary of joining imgur). Reproduced here for archiving purposes. It’s my first cakeday! At least, it was last week. So in honour…
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EOS: Earth Orbit Station
EOS is a large, spherical, rotating space station located in high Earth orbit. EOS stands for “Earth Orbit Station”. The name references Eos, the Greek goddess of the dawn. Her brother was Helios, god of the Sun, and her sister…
Posted in Uncategorized
Funding Mars exploration
NASA’s predicament regarding Mars is that the agency simply doesn’t have sufficient funds for a Mars program, despite enthusiasm within the agency for Mars. Although NASA continues to report that they are on the road to Mars, and are aiming to…
Posted in Mars
Renaming the Martian Moons
The idea of renaming Mars’ moons arose whilst I was thinking of names for sols of the week for the Utopian Calendar. Just as on Earth we have one day of the week named for the Moon (“Monday” in English),…
Posted in Mars
Safety in Space Settlements
Travelling to Luna and Mars, and building and living in settlements there, will be dangerous. NASA and other space agencies have strict safety requirements for human-rated missions. However, when we are talking about a settlement to be populated by civilians,…
Posted in Space
More on the Global Food System
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― R. Buckminster Fuller It’s been a while since I posted about the Earth Rehabilitation Program and the…
The Space Diet
I am currently testing a new diet which I am calling the “Space Diet” It is meant to be a healthy and nutritionally complete diet, which can be grown with a minimum of volume, mass, energy, time and money –…
Posted in Food
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