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…
Casindra Lost is out to order for Christmas 2019.
Moraturi Lost will be available to order Easter 2020.
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