Cosmic LogFeb 17

Occupy Mars? Or the moon? It’s time for a reality check
It's an age-old debate in space circles: Should humanity's first city on another world be built on the moon, or on Mars?

As recently as last year, SpaceX founder Elon Musk saw missions to the moon as a "distraction." In a post to his X social-media platform, he declared that "we're going straight to Mars."

But last wee
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Occupy Mars? Or the moon? It’s time for a reality check

It’s an age-old debate in space circles: Should humanity’s first city on another world be built on the moon, or on Mars? As recently as last year, SpaceX founder Elon Musk saw missions …

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Cosmic LogOct 31

A fictional Grand Tour portrays Pluto as it really is
NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto has forced astronomers to rewrite their textbooks — but that's not all: New Horizons also forced Les Johnson to rewrite a novel.

The space scientist was tasked with taking notes that the famed science-f
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A fictional Grand Tour portrays Pluto as it really is

NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto has forced astronomers to rewrite their textbooks — but that’s not all: New Horizons also forced Les Johnson to rewrite a novel. The space scientist…

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Cosmic LogOct 13

Native American legends get woven into an alien tale
Centuries before the Roswell UFO Incident, Native Americans had their own stories to tell about alien visitations — for example, about the "Sky People" who traveled from the Pleiades star cluster to Earth and have a special bond with the Cherokee Nation.

In a newly published novel titled "
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Native American legends get woven into an alien tale

Centuries before the Roswell UFO Incident, Native Americans had their own stories to tell about alien visitations — for example, about the “Sky People” who traveled from the Pleiades st…

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Cosmic LogSep 26
How billionaires boost America in space race with China
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture has only just begun to launch a heavy-lift rocket that was a decade in the making — its orbital-class New Glenn launch vehicle, which had its first flight in January. But it's already planning somethin
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How billionaires boost America in space race with China

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture has only just begun to launch a heavy-lift rocket that was a decade in the making — its orbital-class New Glenn launch vehicle, which had its first fligh…

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Cosmic LogAug 11, 2025
Climate-fiction thriller explores Florida’s flooded future
How will technology — and society — adapt to the dramatic effects that climate change is expected to bring? Will necessity become the mother of invention in a world of rising seas? Will it be business as usual? Or will it
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Climate-fiction thriller explores Florida’s flooded future

How will technology — and society — adapt to the dramatic effects that climate change is expected to bring? Will necessity become the mother of invention in a world of rising seas? Will it be busin…

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Cosmic LogJul 4, 2025
Fiction outweighs fact in ‘Jurassic World’ dinosaur tale
Nathan Myhrvold, a Seattle tech titan who also studies titanosaurs and other denizens of the dinosaur era, realizes that "Jurassic World: Rebirth" is science fiction, not a documentary — nevertheless, he has a few bones to
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Fiction outweighs fact in ‘Jurassic World’ dinosaur tale

Nathan Myhrvold, a Seattle tech titan who also studies titanosaurs and other denizens of the dinosaur era, realizes that “Jurassic World: Rebirth” is science fiction, not a documentary …

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Cosmic LogMay 19, 2025

How to hold the line against AI hype
Don't call ChatGPT a chatbot. Call it a conversation simulator. Don't think of DALL-E as a creator of artistic imagery. Instead, think of it as a synthetic media extruding machine. In fact, avoid thinking that what generative AI does is actually artificial intelligence.

That
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How to hold the line against AI hype

Don’t call ChatGPT a chatbot. Call it a conversation simulator. Don’t think of DALL-E as a creator of artistic imagery. Instead, think of it as a synthetic media extruding machine. In f…

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Cosmic LogFeb 14, 2025
How science weighs the pluses and minuses of space sex
You might think sex in space would be an out-of-this-world experience — but based on the scientific evidence so far, low-gravity intimacy isn’t likely to be as much of a high as it sounds. In fact, dwelling too deeply on the challenges of off-Earth sex and repr
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How science weighs the pluses and minuses of space sex

You might think sex in space would be an out-of-this-world experience — but based on the scientific evidence so far, low-gravity intimacy isn’t likely to be as much of a high as it sounds. In fact,…

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Cosmic LogJan 29, 2025

Science points out paths to interplanetary adventures
What would you do for fun on another planet? Go ballooning in Venus' atmosphere? Explore the caves of Hyperion? Hike all the way around Mercury? Ride a toboggan down the slopes of Pluto's ice mountains? Or just watch the clouds roll by on Mars?

All those adv
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Science points out paths to interplanetary adventures

What would you do for fun on another planet? Go ballooning in Venus’ atmosphere? Explore the caves of Hyperion? Hike all the way around Mercury? Ride a toboggan down the slopes of Pluto&#8217…

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Cosmic LogNov 5, 2024
Why it’ll get harder to draw the line between AI and us
Some say artificial intelligence will be humanity's greatest helper. Others warn that AI will become humanity's most dangerous rival. But maybe there's a third alternative --- with AI agents achieving the status of
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Why it’ll get harder to draw the line between AI and us

Some say artificial intelligence will be humanity’s greatest helper. Others warn that AI will become humanity’s most dangerous rival. But maybe there’s a third alternative —…

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