A communication strategy that aliens might use instead of radio signals is to send brief and intense bursts of laser light across the galaxy – sort of like a signal lamp between two ships. Some space telescopes would be ideally suited to pluck out such a signal from the sky background. Why laser beams instead of radio transmitters? [...]
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Using Energy In Different Ways To Travel The Universe
The greatest restriction to space travel as far as I can see is that the fuel that is needed to propel the vehicle is carried on the spacecraft. If we use energy to travel the universe in a different way then that fuel may not have to be carried or just a little fuel may [...]
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Talk to the Animals?
My dog is looking at me now it’s barking at me. It always seems to be saying something. But how would I know if it was or not?. I’m not sure if I really want to know what is being said,but perhaps it could be quite useful if I could understand the barks. Perhaps that [...]
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Is Humanity a Spacefaring Race.?
We’re destined to go to the stars. That’s the assumption we’ve been making for a century, and I daresay most readers believe this as surely as they believe we’ll eventually cure dandruff. Our anticipation of an interstellar destiny is not merely the consequence of too many couch-hours spent watching Spandex-suited astronauts in Star Trek, Star [...]
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Square Planets
Looking at the universe I have always thought it odd that planets were round and not some other shape. To make a sphere on earth isn’t really that easy. I can’t say that I have tried it But just trying to get a lump of plasticine into a sphere with your hands is almost impossible. On [...]
