Tag: space

Searching for this Simulation’s God

Simulation Theory and the scientific pursuit of God.

https://thenextweb.com/distract/2017/07/06/simulation-hypothesis-and-the-search-for-god/#.tnw_k8m91JG8

Elon Musk, Nick Bostrom, Neil Degrasse-Tyson and many others believe the chances that we are living in a simulation is close to 100%.

I don’t think it actually matters whether we are in base reality, a Microverse, Miniverse, or Tinyverse… but you will have to read my books to out find why.

Visualizing a decent life on the moon.

NASA Judged, Moontopia Competition – Winner

 

These images kind of make me want to sign up as a pioneer…
OK, scratch that. Realistically, I guess I mean write a SciFi story about somebody else signing up.

“The Testlab settlement is based on the idea of the Russian Babushka
Doll — one layer protects the next. On the very inside of the settlement
are the Pods, which inhabit the private sleeping quarters, the communal
rooms, the greenhouse, as well as the experimental labs and the
necessary machinery to sustain life on the moon. Between the pods and
the outer most protective membrane is the void that acts as yet another
protective layer between livable and unlivable space.”

https://pionic.org/moontopia-lunar-colony-visions-revealed 

https://pionic.org/moontopia-lunar-colony-visions-revealed

 

https://pionic.org/moontopia-lunar-colony-visions-revealed

 

I actually think I like the Runner up even more: 
“The moon has abundant resources on the moon… [but] it is has always
had a significant meaning to us, and therefore its original state must
be highly respected and preserved as much as possible. Therefore we propose a space station not
built directly on the surface but orbiting around the moon with a cable
linked to the surface”

https://pionic.org/moontopia-lunar-colony-visions-revealed

Singularity’s Children, Sci-Fact Behind the Sci-Fiction, Part 9 — Asteroid Capture

With Singularity’s Children, scientific accuracy and technical consistency are the ingredients I rely on most to bake a plausible SciFi world. To ‘keep it real’ and the story grounded in an authentic universe, the Science and Tech—at least in the first two books—is based on established fact, any developments are mostly incremental upgrades to our current capabilities.

 Fiction: 
Excerpt from Book Two:
http://tobyweston.net/excerpt_book2_space_mountain
Fact:
“While the psychological barrier to mining asteroids is high, the actual financial and technological barriers are far lower.”
Noah Poponak, Goldman Sachs.
“Caltech has suggested an asteroid-grabbing spacecraft could cost $2.6bn… 
… [this] is only about one-third the amount that has been invested in Uber.”
http://uk.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-space-mining-asteroid-platinum-2017-4
NASA is taking the idea seriously, fast tracking their mission to a 10,000 Quadrillion USD lump of platinum and gold—perhaps they want to stake a claim before other prospectors turn up?

http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-just-fast-tracked-their-mission-to-explore-a-10-000-quadrillion-metal-asteroid

(info graphic: http://www.space.com/20610-nasa-asteroid-capture-mission-infographic.html)