If we journeyed to other worlds and found animals, intelligent or otherwise, there would be an extended, global debate about how we should treat these creatures, just like we have now about the ethics of colonising or terraforming Mars (just…
If we journeyed to other worlds and found animals, intelligent or otherwise, there would be an extended, global debate about how we should treat these creatures, just like we have now about the ethics of colonising or terraforming Mars (just…
One of the reasons for this blog is to capture some of the thoughts and ideas I have, related to evolution of humanity on Earth, as well as space. Space is still the main goal for the century, but there are…
I have blogged about this before, but my ideas have evolved recently so this is a more comprehensive update. We start with a few basic problems, which seem apparent to me: Humans are suffering too much. More than I feel comfortable…
I’ve written about this before, but I want to expand on the concept here. Imagine what a world would be like if there was no shortage of good quality, edible food anywhere? If you could go to any part of…
This is a letter I wrote to the Space Rennaissance Initiative (including Buzz Aldrin) on 2009-02-19: Hi gents The subject of space colonisation has been uppermost in my mind lately, and I think “Renaissance” is the perfect word for the…