A Brief History of Space Travel as Told by the Art That Inspired It
Humanity has been obsessed with exploring the stars for millennia, it just took a little while for us to obtain the means of actually doing so. In his new book, The Art of Space, author Ron Miller explores both how we developed the technology necessary for space travel and how that technology has steadily migrated…
Could You Launch Someone Into the Sun With a Big Enough Cannon?
In the spirit of making problems go away, sometimes you want to just launch a particular person/problem into the sun. So—could you? And just how big would the canon need to be? To be launched into the sun, you need to have enough energy to escape Earth’s gravity and enough energy to overcome the Earth’s…
That Time Congress Considered Building Cities In Space
Forget the flying cars and robot maids, we’re just a few precious generations away from ditching this hunk of space rock called Earth and living among the stars. The dream of off-world living is thanks, in large part, to a single Princeton physics professor who not only envisioned a new path for humanity but nearly…
