If you plan to move to the moon (something that seems possible in the coming decades, although initially only for scientists and convicts…), you won’t need to bring water with …
Alliance on the moon
On March 9, Zhang Kejian on behalf of the “China National Space Administration” (CNSA) and Dmitry Rogozin on behalf of the Russian Roscosmos signed an inter-state cooperation agreement for the …
Delicate tasks
As for its looks, the german designed and IBM programmed CIMON-2 (the smiley plastic balloon on the left) does not claim any prizes. Though, it has a rich emotional (and …
Dude, you trod on me!
The russian-made android robot Fedor is not the first automaton to be found on the International Space Station (ISS). But it is the first one that emitted a “distress signal” …
Make a wish…
The Japanese “Astro Live Experiences” (ALE) wants to be the first to offer (for a fee) “artificial star showers” – the Perseids or shooting stars, which when they fall naturally …
Life on the red planet is passing by relaxedly…
If those little green men with antennas exist, they don’t come from Mars. Unless they once lived there, but messed it up and left. The robotic rover Curiosity (literally: curiosity) …
Practical spirit
While the American “pioneer” Musk symbolically launches his Tesla into the space junkyards, the Chinese manufacturers appear much more grounded: beyond electric/autonomous cars (for which the Chinese market is secured…), …
A red car with two rockets
Every season of capitalist transition, of model change, has its own corresponding opportunists. Musk is one of them. Under different conditions—say, twentieth-century capitalism—he would have ended up in jail or …
Everything is a lie…
If you had any anxiety (and why wouldn’t you?), some anguish about what is happening with the Universe (at least that which cosmologists and astrologers swear is “existent”), then the …
Suitcases… and kisses to mom!
It is a sign of the times. The last time the philosophy of “migration to other planets” went mainstream was when the Americans globally showcased their moon landing. The “Apollo” …
Risky jobs
We can make fun of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, but its bosses are ahead. Way ahead. Their latest feat was legislation granting extraction rights for raw materials from extraterrestrial …
furrows
Gullies of this kind, on craters or on slopes of the surface of Mars, convinced NASA scientists that water flows there. The related announcement has once again fueled fantasies about …
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