Last week, NASA announced that it is entering the emerging business of Space Tourism. You can now book a room on the International Space Station (ISS) for up to 30 days, beginning in 2020. Be sure to book early, as there is only room for two tourist astronauts per year. The $35,000 per night price…
Space Tourists
26th June 2019The Blue Origin Lander
22nd May 2019Although most space launches up to this point have been funded by government agencies, science fiction writers have for decades accepted the proposition that human expansion in space will be funded by private enterprise. Long before actual rocketry was even close to achieving escape velocities, writers like Jules Verne and H.G. Wells depicted early trips…
The Simulation Hypothesis
23rd April 2019You’ve probably heard about the Simulation Hypothesis—it’s the idea that reality as we know it is actually an artificial simulation. Of course, we all love black leather trench coats and reality-warping kung fu, but we’re not talking about the Matrix here. In the Matrix, the human minds that interact with the computer’s artificial landscape are…