JPL’s “Visions of the Future”
Steven L. Taylor
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016
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About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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“I wonder if they’ll super-feminize Venus, maybe even creating vagi–yup, nailed it.”
What, no love for Io?
I am an avid reader of Science Fiction but at the same time realize that most of it is unrealistic. We have both resource issues and physics issues. We don’t have the resources to carry out these grandiose schemes but even if we did we have not discovered a way to protect humans from cosmic and solar radiation. If humans were to attempt to inhabit the moon or mars they would have to live well underground most of the time. Humans and life in general has thrived on earth because the geomagnetic field has offered protection from solar and cosmic radiation. Spending years or centuries in space is not at the present time something humans can survive.
@Ron Beasley: It also looks like it’s the magnetic field that helps keep the Earth’s atmosphere around.
Huh — I saw a couple of these in passing at National Airport, and hadn’t the faintest idea where they had come from. Good to know.