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« on: July 05, 2016, 03:32:14 pm »

Let's share all kinds of links related to space exploration and colonization, be it scientific news, sci-fi novels, movies, anything.
Similarly to "All things zombie" Dead State thread.
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« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2016, 03:35:40 pm »

The Chinese know something, it's such a tremendous investment

The 500 meter diameter radio telescope can be used for researching the universe and its history as well as outside galaxies and stars, as much as for eavesdropping aliens' TV and radio shows
http://time.com/4392549/china-space-astronomy-radio-telescope-biggest-alien/

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« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2016, 11:51:24 pm »

Anyone pick up Seveneves?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves

I'm about halfway through, really good so far.
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« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2016, 02:00:52 pm »

Anyone pick up Seveneves?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves

I'm about halfway through, really good so far.

Interesting, thanks.

I watched Europa Report yesterday, a pseudo-documentary about international research mission to Europa, Jupiter's moon. While it doesn't have high ratings on IMDB and such (probably because of lack of action), I found it's pseudo-realistic style more exciting than big budget blockbusters. In the absence of real space exploration, that's what we have to resort to - "believable space exploration fantasy". *sighs*
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« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2016, 09:25:54 am »

Nick, maybe you will enjoy "Approaching the Unknown". It's a no nonsense space movie without action.
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« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2016, 12:32:42 pm »

Nick, maybe you will enjoy "Approaching the Unknown". It's a no nonsense space movie without action.

Thanks, bookmarked.
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« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2016, 05:28:54 pm »

Anyone pick up Seveneves?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves

I'm about halfway through, really good so far.

I thought Seveneves was awful. An interesting failure, maybe, but still a total failure. And Stephenson's last book, tho more entertaining, was still laughably slight. It's hard to believe those were both written by the same author as Anathem.

All that said, Seveneves is maybe interesting as a semi-hard-scientific exploration of space colonization. But wow, it adds up to far less than the sum of its parts.
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« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2016, 09:26:47 pm »

Dunno, I've always thought his books were a bit above my head, but this one's awesome, so it's probably drivel! Approve


Finished it. The second half involving resettlement wasn't as compelling as the first, but overall I give it a thumbs up.
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« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2016, 03:28:59 am »

I've mentioned this one before, it's a rather good one by Harry Harrison, it illustrates another approach to colonization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_Universe
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« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2016, 10:43:36 am »

Looks good. Gen ship settings are my new favorite
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« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2016, 11:08:08 pm »

Approaching the unknown looks good too.

Made me want to see "moon" again, different aas they are.
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« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2016, 08:01:54 am »

Re: Europa Report, I found it enjoyable and I don't mind a film being light on action. But they could have completely dropped the documentary-style interviews. The characters sitting and describing what was happening added zero to the movie. I can see exactly what's happening in the other scenes. Without those sections though it probably would have been less than hour long.
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« Reply #13 on: August 25, 2016, 02:55:41 am »

Proxima b, A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit
around Proxima Centauri, 'merely' 4 light years away from Earth

the Nature journal publication

Proxima b is a likely first destination for interstellar probes, when the technology allows.
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« Reply #14 on: August 25, 2016, 04:01:50 am »

Another possible source of practical considerations for "Mayflower" construction,
Project Daedalus, a curious interstellar unmanned research ship design from the 70s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus
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