Atomic and Ionic Radi essays The purpose of this essay is to give explanation to the formation of the periodic table and all of it's elements and how they are organized and put into periods and families and the trends that involved with those parts. This
For some great notes on spacecraft life support, read Rick Robinson's Rocketpunk Manifesto essay. As a very rough general rule: one human will need an amount of mass/volume equal to his berthing space for three months of consumables (water, air, food). This was figured with data from sub...
That's another way of asking the Big Question, and we'll spend the rest of this essay trying to answer it. But before continuing, let's be sure we're all together. I suspect that the Big Question may have taken some of you by surprise. After all, there are abundant examples of ...
Since science fiction is literature, and commonly has a theme of conflict, there are often two major ideologies. And they don't like each other very much. Bruce Sterling (perhaps inspired by Freeman Dyson's essay "The Greening of the Galaxy" found in his book Disturbing the Universe) create...