Sentences with phrase «of space colonies»

Gerard O'Neill the man who promoted the idea of space colonies and developed some of the practical technology needed to make them a reality, died in California last week, aged 65.

And similar to the other entries in this line of games, players will again be assuming the role of a meddlesome goat, only this time the setting is that of a space colony.

Through video, paintings, schematic diagrams, 3D printed sculpture, and a virtual reality experience, Ganske offers an immersive tour of Centralia Habitat, his concept of a space colony.

Not exact matches

Every time one of his companies stumbles, the entrepreneur seems to have another spectacular idea to announce — a Martian colony, a space - based internet or an 800 - mph transit system — to thrill and confuse.

«Every time one of his companies stumbles, Musk seems to have another spectacular thing to announce — a new mode of transportation, the space internet, or a Martian colony — to thrill and confuse,» Vance writes.

But space entrepreneurs are now attempting to capitalize on NASA's rekindled interest in lunar travel, coughing up a handful of proposals all leading to the commence of human colonies in our nearest neighbor in space.

Among the biggest potential winners is North American Properties, which submitted a plan to redevelop Colony Square into a 200,000 - square - feet of office space and a retail component including a food hall and movie theater.

While dreams of moon - bases and lunar colonies may have been ignited by the success of Apollo 11, our sole reliance on the government to forge our future in space has, unfortunately, left many disappointed with the pace of progress.

17 Interestingly, thus, the uur (the geographical and socio - cultural space of the caste community), which is distinguished from its counterpart, the ceri or colony (the geographical and socio - cultural space of the Paraiyars), represents the pervading frontiers of the caste community.

In 1974, with the nation facing a second general election in eight months the BBC decided to explain the constitution and its import to the nation's children via the medium of a colony of pink space mice.

If life spreads between planets, inhabited worlds should clump in space like colonies of bacteria on a Petri dish.

Here's the best part: it has a lot of surface area, which is ideal because it gives a lot more space to grow strong bacterial colonies.

Deepsea Challenger belongs to a generation of craft that are opening the ocean's extreme depths to direct exploration; if sea colonies are space stations, these are missions to Mars.

Fromm adds that a stronger grasp of plant growth in space could prove beneficial on any off - planet colony.

Colonies of bacteria called biofilms live longer in Mars - like waters — especially if they were dried out first, as they would be after hitching a ride through space

PERSONAL SPACE Positions of king penguins in a breeding colony resemble molecules in a 2 - D liquid, a new study finds.

Perhaps space tourism and brief joyrides will be the lesser part of the industry; in the longer term, commercial spacecraft may help us discover minerals or other resources with now - unimaginable properties, or to found colonies that will serve, in the vision of Stephen Hawking, as the ultimate insurance policy for our species.

Frosch's reply, preserved in NASA's archives, argues for considering the space colony studies under the heading of «long - range studies»:

28 SPACE COLONY UPRISING From America to Angola, colonies have a history of rising up against the nations that founded them.

How did O'Neill and other space colony proponents think to justify the immense cost of building these colonies?

Though the space colonies would likely have been much more like shopping malls, O'Neill and the painters hoped these romantic depictions would convey the grandeur of the proposed colonies, according to Don Davis, who painted this scene.

In the mid-1970s, to a visionary few, space colonies seemed like the future of humanity.

In the simulation, they found that over decades colonies would appear and disappear (much like observations of actual fairy circles) and that they would eventually self - organize into regularly spaced honeycomb patterns, with each colony surrounded by six others.

When it was completed, the facility became a controversial and broad experiment in hermetically sealed, self - sustained living with the aim of revealing how humans might fare on space colonies.

The destiny of human beings was to seed Earth's life into space, and the first stop would be a working colony on Mars.

The self - contained prototype space colony in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona has been something of a joke since it began experiments in 1991.

Zhuhai, a smaller seaside outpost opposite the former Portuguese colony of Macau, hosts China's biggest space technology exhibition every 2 years.

For most living cells that's a deadly cocktail, but while some bacteria in the rock died as they were pounded on by the harsh space environment, a colony of bugs known as OU - 20 (they were sent up by the UK's Open University) resembling the cyanobacteria genus Gloeocapsa survived.

The idea of growing food for human colonies in space could be a reality very soon.»

Larger colonies get more than their share of space

Human expeditions to Mars are expected within two or three decades, and Elon Musk of Space X previously said he wants to help the human race to establish a permanent, self - sustaining colony on Mars within the next 50 to 100 years.

And perhaps most worrisome, NASA now wants to fold its Space Technology Mission Directorate into the Human Exploration and Operations Directorate, surely to support the administration's goal of setting up a human colony on the moon.

Cast against high - minded promises of lunar colonies and Mars missions, the space program — with all its current troubles — should make the answer to the following question seem pretty obvious.

While the last time we saw a variation of Lost In Space was in 1998 with a film directed by Stephen Hopkins, this upcoming television reboot essentially revolves on the Robinson family on a highly trained mission to establish a new colony in space, but unexpectedly pulled off course forcing them to crash land on a lost plSpace was in 1998 with a film directed by Stephen Hopkins, this upcoming television reboot essentially revolves on the Robinson family on a highly trained mission to establish a new colony in space, but unexpectedly pulled off course forcing them to crash land on a lost plspace, but unexpectedly pulled off course forcing them to crash land on a lost planet.

The abundance of emergent gameplay mechanics, the ability to build, create, and customize your personal colony, and indulge in all of those sci - fi fantasies of colonizing space has never been realized this well before.

Treacle of the highest / lowest order, this embarrassingly sappy sci - fi tearjerker unfolds chiefly from the perspective of an earnest space boy (eternal sensitive adolescent Asa Butterfield) who leaves the Martian colony where he was born to find his real father on Earth, while also romancing an unconvincingly teenage love interest (Britt Robertson).

The most prominent of these advertisements is a floating space - barge advertising the Off - World colonies, offering excitement and adventure.

The full scene has arrived online and it introduces us to the crew of the colony ship Covenant, which is venturing deep into space on a mission to establish human outposts on other planets.

The crew of the intergalactic colony ship, Covenant, is awoken mid-cryogenic sleep after a deep space electric charge frazzles their vessel.

«Oasis» Based on the cult - hit novel «The Book of Strange New Things» from Michel Faber, «Oasis» follows a chaplain (Richard Madden, «Game of Thrones») who is sent into space to help establish a colony on a distant planet.

Based on Michael Faber's cult novel The Book of Strange New Things, Oasis follows a chaplain (Madden) who is sent into space to help establish a colony on a distant planet.

The people of the various space stations, the moon base, and a space colony whose construction had just begun must find a way to survive until the war is over.

As technology pushes forward, tales of science fiction — Martian colonies and deep - space travel come closer to reality.

GoF2 is a space - based saga where you're stuck working for a mining colony (not exactly of your on free will) and alternate between working for the man and blowing up bad guys for the man.The story line's fine and all, but it's...

Starting back in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Space Programs era, feral cat colonies had flourished in the vast lush wilderness of the Kennedy Space Center complex in Brevard County, Florida.

I am not a fan of spay and release, programs, but feral cat colonies have enough space that the virus tends to fizzle out there.

Feedback from colony caretakers identified the lack of recovery space as a significant obstacle to TNR efforts.

In turn, fewer kittens end up on the streets or in shelters, foster home spaces open up, and the Good Samaritans providing out - of - pocket for their outdoor colonies catch a break once those colonies are contained.

Los Angeles — area painters and curators have transformed the industrial spaces of Culver City into a thriving art colony, and the metamorphosis at... Read More

His journey takes him deep into the jungle, from the hideouts of runaway slaves to penal colonies, outlandish forts, remote Amerindian villages, a «Little Paris» and a space port.