The video below shows an elaborate plan by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the architectural firm Foster + Partners to design a permanent lunar research base, capable of housing scientists. The most exciting part isn’t really the idea of a lunar base. There are all kinds of plans out there for everything from underwater mega…
Short film ‘Wanderers’ examines the appeal of colonizing other planets
This short film by Erik Wernquist recreates landscapes from our solar system and is narrated with words from Carl Sagan. It explores the appeal of new frontiers and new places and the part of our nature that lures us ‘out there’. Regardless of whether or not you, personally, want to go to space it has…
It’s looking less and less likely that there is, or ever was, life on Mars
The video below illustrates some of the many, many problems that must be overcome before humans can actually live on Mars. At the same time it illustrates some of the problems that indigenous life on Mars would have had to overcome. It’s become pretty clear that life, as we know it, does not exist on…