The Future This Week: CRISPR, Cryonics, and the Transhumanist Party
In The Future This Week, Serious Wonder is headed into our solar system. Either it’s a biased selection of sources, or we’re really in for some seriously exciting space-related stories soon.
Bill Nye offered his rationale for a more vigorous space program. Cassini finally explored Titan’s surface. A group is working on a “light sail” that we could use to travel through space more efficiently. And we wonder if Earth’s habitable atmosphere has to do with tectonic plates.
Lakes on Titan
Cassini has finally investigated the mysterious lakes of liquid methane on Titan’s surface. SOURCE
Life on Europa?
Bill Nye, who inspired many of us to wonder about the future, offered his appeal to will the discovery of life on other planets. SOURCE
How Can Life Breath on Earth?
How did Earth develop a breathable atmosphere? Well, some research suggests it has to do with tectonic plate activity. SOURCE
Sailing in Space
Could intersolar craft use a sail powered by solar energy to glide through space? SOURCE
“Geysers on Europa like the ones on Enceladus would be, first of all, amazing. Second of all, if they’re there, they present us with an extraordinary opportunity to sample an ocean on another world without the enormous expense of designing a lander and propelling it out there. We can design a far less expensive mission that would (or will) fly through the spray of extraterrestrial ocean droplets and examine them remotely. These geysers were discovered just last year, so mission planners contributing to the Decadal Survey had no notion that such a mission was even possible.” Bill Nye on the Europa imperative SOURCE
PC: NASA
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Gabriel Sistare is the Senior Editor of Serious Wonder. He loves materials science and design, and hopes for a future abundant with vitality.
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