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Jan Hammer was a fusion guy, if you include him why not Herbie Hancock and Joe Zawinul? Stevie Wonder and Bernie Worrell (if you don't...

Are you implying that SF writers and space proponents are not biased? No one writes about a future where we all realize that human...

Within the next few decades we have a good shot at finding strong evidence of extraterrestrial life by analyzing atmospheres of...

No need to carry much fuel for propulsion - assuming that the ability to build a 58km long ship in orbit comes from robots, not men in...

Great. Our cosmic legacy:

Better?

Absolutely. There will come a day when we see humans (and any other living thing) more accurately viewed as a cloud of interdependent...

It is instructive to see how much effort and complexity it realistically takes to simply transport a population of 1500 humans to the...

Here is a ‘real’ example of plans for a generation ship to Proxima B - 58x6 km and several billion tons. It would take 400 years for the...

Why is death metal ‘raucous’ and classical music not? Most death metal is very precise music that requires real musicianship to play...

Humans are bacterial colonies - everywhere we go they will follow

My point is that generally given how little we've done in the past 50 years, it's a bit rich to claim the inevitability of indefinite...

To quantify this - settling the new world had a risk but a positive expectation- once you discount the payoff past your...

North American settlers risked their families for a payoff of a better life they and their immediate descendants could experience - way...