Category: FUTUROLOGY

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GALACTIC COLONIZATION

Using the newest data from the European Space Agency’s GAIA spacecraft, the ESA created the above map of our galaxy that pinpoints the brightness and positions of nearly 1.7 billion stars. Our Milky Way...

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What Will Be Left?

Someone has speculated that if all human beings were to be buried together, we would need a coffin roughly one kilometer in each dimension. This one cubic kilometer of humans has had a long...

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LIFE EXTENSION

Every time I hear a story about the impacts of global warming, it mentions how it is the current generation’s grandkids’ problem. This is one of the things that makes the problem so hard...

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COEXISTENCE

In June of 1956, A few dozen scientists and mathematicians from all around the country gathered for a meeting on the campus of Dartmouth College. Most of them settled into the red-bricked Hanover Inn,...

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Galaxy Wide Governments

As technology progresses, humans increasingly exploit resources of our home planet. One day, we might become an interplanetary species as imagined in The Expanse. One of the fundamental steps for that is to build reusable rockets,...

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Colonizing Alpha Centauri: Outward Bound

Compared to the imagination, space disappoints. For decades humans dreamed of finding extraterrestrial neighbors next door, on the sands of Mars or under the clouds of Venus. While we’ve sent probes and, in the...

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The Kardashev Scale

The Kardashev Scale was created to measure how advanced a civilization is. Where do humans rank? Have you heard about the Kardashev Scale? If not, you are certainly in for a treat. For us mere...

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O’Neill Cylinders

Many people believe that the Earth will soon be in danger and the sprawling nature of humanity is the undeniable cause. With the rapid technological progress and advancement of the past few centuries, we’re quickly...

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Ecumenopolises

The word Ecumenopolis was invented in 1967 by the Greek city planner Constantinos Doxiadis to represent the idea that in the future urban areas and megalopolises would eventually fuse and there would be a...

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Dyson’s Spheres

Perhaps the greatest ‘holy grail’ in all of astronomy is the search for life, and particularly intelligent life, beyond Earth. Given that life arose so plentifully and easily here on our home planet, and...

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