Physical Sciences

Can JP Aerospace's Future Giant Airships Slowly Accelerate To Orbit? Looking At The Numbers

Untitled Document A while back I wrote my article " Can Giant Airships Slowly Accelerate to Orbit Over Several Days ". It lead to a lot of discussion and as usual whenever you discuss John Powell's ideas, there were physicists and aeroengin ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 17 2018 - 10:57pm

So You Thought We Could Terraform Mars Quickly? Large Space Habitats Instead Open Solar System To Humans

SpaceX have a striking video showing Mars spinning faster and faster, transforming from the current red Mars to a planet with a small ocean and with the deserts tinged with green in seven revolutions. Of course that is poetic exaggeration- it wouldn' ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 27 2018 - 10:05am

Are There Habitats For Life On Mars?- Salty Seeps, Clear Ice Greenhouses, Ice Fumaroles, Dune Bioreactors,...

could form with surface temperatures as low as 180°K (-90°C). Salts in contact with them could then form ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jan 11 2017 - 10:54pm