Science Fact Category
Tuesday 07 May, 2013
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Where’s my giant city-crushing anthropomorphic walking tank?
Monday 22 April, 2013
Kepler Discovers Twin Water Worlds
While I was working on creating two fictional planets, NASA was busy discovering their real-life counterparts.
Thursday 28 March, 2013
SciFi Weapons: Sidearms
Raymond Frazee discusses phasers, laser pistols, and why it’s never safe to shoot a gun aboard a spaceship.
Monday 28 January, 2013
Traveling Through Time and Not Space
There is a problem with describing H.G. Wells’ time machine as “travelling through time and not space” because the Earth is in constant motion. If the machine remains in the same spot on the laboratory floor, it follows that it must be in motion too.
Sunday 13 January, 2013
Cities of the Future: The Domed City of Mir
Russian construction firm AB Elise has proposed turning one of the world’s largest opencast mines into a futuristic domed city.
Tuesday 01 January, 2013
Cities of the Future: Floating Cities
Tower blocks needn’t be the only answer; it is possible that as well as expanding our settlements into the sky, we might also expand outward onto the oceans. This could be done by constructing enormous floating cities.
Tuesday 11 December, 2012
Skylon: What is it, and why is it so cool?
As a successor to the Space Shuttle, the Skylon spaceplane has been envisioned as a 100% reusable launch vehicle. It will be safer, more efficient and cheaper to fly.
Monday 05 November, 2012
The Floating Bridge of Gibraltar
Eugene Tsui’s concept for a 9 mile long floating bridge to connect Europe and Africa via the Strait of Gibraltar.
Tuesday 09 October, 2012
Atlantropa: Draining the Mediterranian Sea
In 1929, German architect Herman Sörgel proposed building a huge dam across the Straights of Gibraltar and draining the Mediterranean Sea. Was this a stroke of genius, or just a touch of madness?
Tuesday 24 July, 2012
Has Voyager 1 Really Left the Solar System?
You’ve probably heard this news being bandied around the internet, but the truth is that it’s not quite that clear cut.
Wednesday 27 June, 2012
An Idiot’s Guide to Teleportation
To teleport Captain Kirk, we need to scan him and find out every detail about his body (a sickening idea, I know). Every particle needs to be put back exactly where it was or Kirk might turn into a pile of goo, a vapour, or worse – an evil version of himself from a parallel universe.
Monday 30 April, 2012
The Universe is Full of Vorlons
A recently published paper by scientist David Moore suggests that we are far more likely to encounter an ancient spacefaring civilization than a race of aliens with a level of technology comparable to our own.
Tuesday 03 April, 2012
Airborne Wind Generators: the Future of Renewable Energy?
The airborne wind turbine (AWT) uses a a helium-filled inflatable shell to rise to high into the air where winds are stronger and more consistent, making it much more reliable than conventional land-based wind turbines.
Saturday 25 February, 2012
Terraforming via Telepresence and Telerobotics
Engineers and scientists located at NASA or aboard the International Space Station can control the motions of a number of remote controlled vehicles that would work in concert to terraform Mars.
Tuesday 17 January, 2012
Nuclear Pulse Propulsion
This very simple idea could see spacecraft reaching incredible speeds. The basic Project Orion design could have traveled to Mars and back in just 4 weeks. A trip to Saturn’s moons would be cut down from 9 years to just 7 months.
Thursday 12 January, 2012
KOI-961: The Miniature Star System
A team working in Austin Texas have discovered a miniature star system, including three of the smallest extra-solar planets so far discovered.
Tuesday 13 December, 2011
Habitable Exoplanets Catalog
If you are looking for a habitable planet to feature in your story, novel or game, you can’t go far wrong by looking at the extra-solar planets we’ve already discovered.
Monday 12 December, 2011
SciFi Weapons: Missiles and Nukes
Missiles and nukes in space combat. What will do X damage to Y’s butt? What are the real-life implications of using something like an antimatter torpedo on your ex-wife’s star cruiser?
Friday 02 December, 2011
SciFi Weapons: Energy
The truth about energy weapons. What will do X damage to Y’s butt? What are the real-life implications of using something like an antimatter torpedo on your ex-wife’s star cruiser?
Tuesday 29 November, 2011
SciFi Weapons: Ballistic
The science behind ballistic weapons. What will do X damage to Y’s butt? What are the real life implications of using something like an antimatter torpedo on your ex-wife’s star cruiser?
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