Category: humanity
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“Look at the stars. It won’t fix the economy. It won’t stop wars. It won’t give you flat abs, or even help you figure out your relationship. But it’s important. It helps you to remember that you and your problems are both infinitesimally small and conversely, that you are a piece of an amazing and vast universe.”
― Kate Bartolotta Apparently, Kate is a wellness cheerleader, yogini storyteller, and self-care maven, whatever that means. She also writes, books and for various publications. The stars can make us feel small and unimportant but, as Kate so rightly says, we are part of the whole, connected and separate, as important and as necessary as…
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“The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.”
– Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (17 September 1857 – 19 September 1935) Tsiolkovsky is remembered for believing in the dominance of humanity throughout space. He had grand ideas about space industrialization and the exploitation of its resources. Long before the beginning of the space era, this Great Russian scientist derived a formula for space rockets’ overcoming the…
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“Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.”
— Isaac Asimov (2 Jan 1920 – 6 Apr 1992) American author (of Russian parentage) and professor of biochemistry at Boston University who was a prolific author and editor of science fiction and non-fiction. He was a regular commentator on science and society and atheism and was known for creating the three laws of robotics.…
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Space-Based Solar Power
Another amazing concept, like space elevators, with a long pedigree in science fiction and scientific speculation. From Isaac Asimov’s 1941 short story, Reason, to Gerard K O’Neil’s The High Frontier, space-based solar power satellites provide the emotional drivers and scientific background that can’t be kept down. The University of Southampton’s recent exciting new publication, Space…
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Space elevators
Who doesn’t love the concept of a space elevator?! Simple and cheap access to space – and eco-friendly. Once built its self-sustaining. Once the investment is made, everything else is free (or virtually)! Interest in space elevators is growing – see this article from 2021 and this opinion piece from Scientific American. The British Interplanetary…
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The future of humanity in space
The Moon and Jupiter together in the early evening sky in November 2022, from Cyprus. In the not-too-distant future, you or your children will go there, will live there. To learn more about the potential, keep coming back to this site.
Stargazing Guy 