The Ramshackle Vampire

In some earlier entries I’ve expressed doubts about the likelihood of humans creating a galactic civilization. Interstellar colonies...

Whatever its other cultural merits, the decade 1990-99 did not leave us many great science-fiction movies. Most of its offerings were b...

(For the previous entry in this series, click here .) Them Bones , 53-59: Weather plays a more important role in Them Bones than in mos...

If population pressure won't push human beings out of the Solar System, and the pursuit of mineral wealth won't carry us far ...

Expanding on my earlier look at one of the motives that might (but probably won't) impel human beings to colonize the galaxy, I'...

A recent video by Kurzgesagt asked if modern physics supplied a boundary, an absolute limit, to human expansion into the universe. The ans...

(For the previous entry in this series, click here .) Them Bones , 40-41, 44-46, 65-69: After spending a few days in ...