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Photo: Astronaut Peggy Whitson on a spacewalk, March 2017, by NASA.

Guillermo Gonzalez Extends “Privileged Planet” Arguments to Space Travel

A skeptic might ask, “Couldn’t a more technologically advanced civilization develop new sources of fuel that require less mass?” Read More ›
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Is Space Travel Our Destiny?

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 ›

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