astronaut 2 Type post Author Casey Luskin Date May 13, 2020 CategoriesPhysical Sciences Tagged , BIO-Complexity, Circumstellar Habitable Zone, earth, exoplanets, fuel, gravity, Guillermo Gonzalez, Industrial Revolution, Jay Richards, NASA, rockets, solar system, space travel, super-earths, The Privileged Planet Guillermo Gonzalez Extends “Privileged Planet” Arguments to Space Travel Casey Luskin May 13, 2020 Physical Sciences 3 A skeptic might ask, “Couldn’t a more technologically advanced civilization develop new sources of fuel that require less mass?” Read More ›
Proxima Centauri Type post Author Guillermo Gonzalez Date April 16, 2020 CategoriesPhysical Sciences Tagged , __k-review, Abraham Loeb, atmosphere, BIO-Complexity, distance, Hubble Space Telescope, hydrogen, interstellar dust, Milky Way, Neptune, oxygen, rockets, satellite TV, solar system, space travel, super-earths, The Privileged Planet, Uranus Is Space Travel Our Destiny? Guillermo Gonzalez April 16, 2020 Physical Sciences 6 I was motivated to do this study after two papers were published in 2018 on the difficulty of launching rockets from super-earths. Read More ›
Freeman_dyson Type post Author Guillermo Gonzalez Date March 2, 2020 CategoriesIntelligent DesignMathematicsPhysical SciencesPhysics Tagged , __edited, A Fortunate Universe, Al Gore, Big Science, bombing, Cambridge University, Christianity, climate change, Frank Tipler, Freeman Dyson, Gifford lectures, Institute for Advanced Study, intelligent design, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jacques Monod, Nobel Prize, pantheism, physicists, Politics, quantum mechanics, religion, Scotland, space travel, string theory, Templeton Prize, theology, Trinity College, universe, war, William Happer, World War II Freeman Dyson: The Passing of an Iconoclastic Physicist Guillermo Gonzalez March 2, 2020 Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Physics 6 Dyson was careful to take an open-minded approach: not fully endorsing design, yet not rejecting it either. Read More ›