Let’s go fishing

Sometime around 2021 a small metal cylinder will burn its way through the icy surface of Europa, one of the many moons of Jupiter. It will have left our planet at obscene speeds (anywhere up to 55,000 km/h) as part of a small family of drones sent to explore the Jovian system. The travel time [...]

The future is now.

“The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.” – William Gibson, November 1999
Ten years later, smart phones provide platforms for applications that haven’t even been dreamt of yet. Wingsuits are in the testing phase. People are trying to figure out how to abandon parachutes altogether. Full on robots are flying over [...]


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Why the (intangible) speed of light is a (hard) limit, and what it means for long distance travel.