CrowlspaceKardashev Level I — What Would it Look Like?Nikolai Kardashev (1932–2019), a Russian radioastronomer, was involved in the early days of SETI. To set constraints on what we might…Jun 20Jun 20
CrowlspaceSpace Drives: Experiments & TheoriesEagleworks, the Johnson Space Center shoe-string “advanced propulsion lab” is now notorious for testing the theoretically impossible…Jun 20Jun 20
CrowlspaceScience vs ReligionHow’s the saying go? Better to have Questions that can’t be answered, than Answers that can’t be questioned. The argument between…Jun 20Jun 20
CrowlspaceProxima Centauri b: Mission Design Notes — Part IIOne problem with high-speed flight to Proxima Centauri is the energy required for extremely high exhaust velocities is a non-trivial…Jun 20Jun 20
CrowlspaceFaster Times to Alpha Centauri — Part IIf fusion, assisted by magnetic sails, gets us to Alpha Centauri in ~50 years, then how do we get there faster? Absent annihilation drives…Jun 20Jun 20
CrowlspaceProject Hail Mary II — Travelling to Nearby StarsThere’s another Science-in-SF blogger, Alex R. Howe, who reviews the tale’s issues here: The Science of Project Hail MaryJun 20Jun 20
CrowlspaceProject Hail Mary — A Crowlspace Review, Part 1Interstellar story-telling that is aiming for “Hard-SF” credibility is a natural subject matter for Crowlspace. So how does Andy Weir’s…Jun 20Jun 20
CrowlspaceHuman Genome in FullBack in the year 2000 the Human Genome Project announced its completion. Yet the job wasn’t quite finished. Finally the last 8% has been…Jun 20Jun 20
CrowlspaceBussard Fusion Rocket — Part 1Robert Bussard (1928–2007) was one of the original Nuclear Rocket Scientists, a nuclear physicist responsible for some major ideas in…Jun 20Jun 20