📆 Nov. 14, 2022 #Artemis is most definitely not reducing the barriers to doing more in #space or on the #moon. The cost 💰 and time ⌛ spent on #SLS and #Orion have set the #SpaceProgram back.
Now that we are reducing 〽️ the #cost 💵 of #SpaceAccess, we should be able to have more relevant goals that are of greater interest to #society.
#Robotic 🤖 missions have always been much more #science-driven and more #efficient, by orders of magnitude, at returning #knowledge 👩🎓 for the investment. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/opinion/nasa-moon-artemis.html
Ms. Stirone is a space writer. Dr. Chiao is a former NASA #astronaut. Ms. Garver is a former deputy administrator of NASA. Dr. Grinspoon is an #astrobiologist
#ShannonStirone #LeroyChiao #LoriGarver #DavidGrinspoon #NASA
Latest #SeldonCrisis focuses on #KimStanleyRobinson's novel Aurora, including reading an excerpt from my favorite part of the book.
There's also a rumination on #utopia vs #dystopia and what it really means to hope. Several notable #utopian thinkers are called out including #DavidGrinspoon, #RebeccaSolnit and #JohannaHoffman.
https://www.seldoncrisis.net/aurora-and-hope/
“Judging by the #history of #life on #Earth and the possible futures we think we can see coming, it is indeed quite possible that most, or effectively all, #civilizations in the #universe are comprised of #machine #intelligences,” says #astrobiologist #DavidGrinspoon.
“Judging by the history of life on Earth and the possible futures we think we can see coming, it is indeed quite possible that most, or effectively all, civilizations in the universe are comprised of machine intelligences,” wrote astrobiologist David Grinspoon in an email to The Daily Galaxy. “However, it also strikes me […]
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