Space

Across the nations, no matter how multiracial they might be, and across artificial lines drawn on maps, it is one race of man that has led the way to the stars. by David Sims IT IS WELL TO be proud of one’s species, but that is the sort of over-generalizing that Star Trekish fiction does. We never see…

by David Sims “WILL interstellar flight ever be possible?” Sooner or later it would be. Many of mankind’s limitations are self-imposed, the result of power being in the hands of people who prioritize goals incorrectly. Unfortunately, the Universe’s natural laws, particularly…

by David Sims THERE’S SOME ARGUMENT about whether there is a Great Filter for the evolution of Life that lies in the future. We can recognize some achievements of the Life of Earth that occurred in the past: • The formation of replicating molecules
• The formation of single-celled organisms via…

by David Sims NO AFRICAN country has ever launched anything into orbit around Earth. The only space launches from African soil were carried out by Italy (on land leased from the government of Kenya) and by Spain (on land leased from the government of Algeria), all of which occurred between 1960 and 1985.…

by David Sims THE Copernican principle, generalized, is that the place we occupy in our universe is nothing special. We are not, for example, at the center of the universe. We are, instead, in the boonies of a typical spiral galaxy at the edge of the Virgo galaxy cluster near the fringe of a supercluster…

Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory and Geneva University Didier Queloz. HUMANITY WILL make contact with alien life far sooner than you might think, according to one prominent scientist. Nobel Prize winner professor Didier Queloz says he’s convinced we’re not alone in the universe…

Major aerospace contractor, once an exemplar of European-American competence and innovation, now mired in easily avoidable yet disastrous mistakes. by David Sims I WOULD STILL like to see a flotilla of satellites like TESS (the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, a space telescope designed…

by David Sims ACCORDING TO Space.com: NASA’s newest planet-hunting powerhouse, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), leaped into orbit Wednesday evening (April 18) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket…. The satellite may be small, but it packs a major science punch. TESS is following…

David Sims, in his writings published on this site, has explored the psychological factors in space travel — in his case, intergalactic travel — and proposed possible solutions. It is also extremely important that we not bring racial “diversity” and all its conflicts and…