Physical Sciences

"Super Positive" Outcomes For Search For Life In Hidden Extraterrestrial Oceans Of Europa And Enceladus

The ancient oceans of Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's tiny Enceladus are hidden beneath an ice sheet kilometers thick. They may have ET microbes, even multicellular swimming creatures around hydrothermal vents. Or they could have imperfectly repro ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 19 2019 - 11:55am

Projects To Get To Space As Easily As We Cross Oceans- A Million Flights A Year Perhaps- Will We Be Ready?

accelerate the fuel. And also as there is no physical contact with the track, friction can be almost zero. ...

Article - Robert Walker - May 18 2020 - 1:13pm

Qualcomm Announces Fourth Quarter And Fiscal 2007 Results

respective owners. Qualcomm Contact: John Gilbert Vice President of Investor and Industry Analyst Relations ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Nov 8 2007 - 5:46pm

Will Astronauts Need To Augment Lunar Gravity? If So, How?

friction between the trains and the tracks we can Use maglev trains  so that there is no physical contact ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 3 2017 - 6:23am

Where Should we Send our Rovers to Mars to Unravel Mystery of Origin of First Living Cells?

The origin of life remains a great mystery in biology. Continental drift has erased most of the record, until all that's left of the first half billion years of evolution are some millimeter sized zircons embedded in later rocks. These can tell us th ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Dec 24 2016 - 10:39am

Why ET Populations Can't Continue To Expand For More Than A Few Millennia

quadrillions of colonists, as they disappear out of contact beyond the light speed communications barrier, some ...

Article - Robert Walker - Aug 1 2017 - 4:36am

Could Anything Make Humans Extinct In The Near Future?

never are contacted. If nothing else, then the uncontacted tribes, which still exist in a few islands ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 17 2018 - 11:00pm

Will We Build Colonies That Float Over Venus Like Buckminster Fuller's "Cloud Nine"?

This idea dates back to the Russians in the early 1970s. The surface of Venus is far too hot, and the atmosphere too dense, for Earth life. However, our air is a lifting gas on Venus with about half the lifting power of helium on Earth. A habitat filled w ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 14 2020 - 2:07pm

Orleans Energy Announces Record Second Quarter Results

CALGARY, Canada, August 15 /PRNewswire/--- Expands 2008 Capital Budget and Increases Market Guidance CALGARY, Canada, August 15 /PRNewswire/-- Orleans Energy Ltd. ("Orleans" or the "Company") (TSX:OEX) is pleased to announce record fin ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 15 2008 - 2:32am

Giant Asteroid Headed Your Way?- How We Can Detect And Deflect Them

We get many sensational news stories, saying a giant asteroid will hit Earth, or will nearly miss us. Several so far this year. Many of us worry about these things. So what is the truth behind them? Actually astronomers have this well in hand for the larg ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 6 2016 - 3:16pm