July 20, 2009
We are still in the prehistory of effective space technology. The problem is that we aren’t (yet) very good at making things.
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The Physical Basis of Atomically Precise Manufacturing
A Telescope Aimed at the Future
Airbus 330: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmiguel/ CC BY-NC 2.0
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March 3, 2009
A few weeks ago, a US and Russian satellite collided, spreading debris around near-Earth space. The video below shows an animation based on a state-of-the-art model of the event and the resulting clouds of ultra-high-speed projectiles. Collisions like this can be expected to occur with increasing frequency.
The Economist just ran an editorial calling for countries [...]
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