Friday, December 20, 2019

Space - the first frontier


The first frontier


Getting into space, living in space, navigating in space - these are no longer science fiction but an every day occurrence. We are now commercializing space, offering degrees in space science and technology, and offering joy rides into space.

Over the course of my lifetime, we have progressed from experimental animals in space, to humans making brief forays into space, to a permanent human presence in low earth orbit and (hopefully just for the time being) permanent human clutter throughout near earth space.

NASA and other agencies have discovered efficient ways to navigate our solar system, exploiting Lagrange Points and establishing  Interplanetary Superhighways.  These might still seem exotic to us, but they will be everyday concepts to our children.

New drive technologies are making space exploration cheaper. Super telescopes are whetting our appetite for space beyond our own solar system, and beyond our own lifetimes with current technologies.



The next frontier


The next frontier is getting beyond our own solar system, getting to another star. Getting to another planet at an affordable cost is months or years of boring travel.  Cryotechnology is probably necessary even for that.  But getting to the nearest star takes light years, but is achievable in a human lifetime if we accelerate at 1G until we reach a reasonable fraction of c.

But still it's a boring trip if there's nothing to look at out the window, losing contact and time sync with people back home.  We have two choice here: develop a safe cryotechnology, or develop an ark technology that allows for whole families to live relatively normal lives - or both...

The nearest galaxy is a step further, and the Lost Mission Series takes us a couple of million light years to Andromeda.  Even the cryo and ark technologies are not enough here - can we exploit a wormhole or some how warp space?

The Lost Mission Series uses the real science of wormholes, EM-drive technologies, interplanetary superhighways, and our incipient cryo and ark technologies to make the trip. Just as with the first forays into space, we tried unmanned probes first, then animal tests…

Now it is time to send people…


My Paradisi Lost stories

Encounters with asteroids, exploited, benign and catastrophically dangerous feature in the Paradisi Chronicles stories, including my Casindra Lost subseries, which also feature genetic engineering, navigation of the superhighway by an emergent AI 'Al', and a captain who is reluctantly crewed with him on a rather long journey to another galaxy - just the two of them, and some cats... There's another AI, 'Alice' that emerges more gradually in the Moraturi arc. The Paradisi colonization aims to preserve the pristine ecosystems of New Eden, restrict mining to the other planets and asteroids of the system, and genetically modify people to suit the ecosystem rather than overwhelm it with introduced species: https://paradisichronicles.wordpress.com/

Casindra Lost
Kindle ebook (mobi) edition ASIN: B07ZB3VCW9 — tiny.cc/AmazonCL
Kindle paperback edition ISBN-13: 978-1696380911 justified Iowan OS
Kindle enlarged print edn ISBN-13: 978-1708810108 justified Times NR 16
Kindle large print edition ISBN-13: 978-1708299453 ragged Trebuchet 18

Moraturi Lost
Kindle ebook (mobi) edition ASIN: B0834Z8PP8 – tiny.cc/AmazonML
Kindle paperback edition ISBN-13: 978-1679850080 justified Iowan OS 

Moraturi Ring
Kindle ebook (mobi) edition ASIN: B087PJY7G3 – tiny.cc/AmazonMR
Kindle paperback edition ISBN-13: 979-8640426106 justified Iowan OS 

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