Tag: Space travel
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What are the practicalities and consequences of time travel?
The discovery of the ability to successfully travel through time has drawn the imagination of many a science fiction writer and blockbuster film maker over the years. Visionaries like H.G. Wells and Steven Spielberg have imagined worlds where time is conquered and can be travelled in a way much like travelling to another country. Aside…
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What are the political and sociological consequences of extended space travel on mankind?
The exploration of space represents an investment in the future of mankind, the likely course of which will determine whether we survive as a species and our place in the cosmos. But aside from speculating about the grand destiny that scientists often lay out for us amongst the stars, what are the practicalities of its…