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Space profits

Article Abstract:

The decline of government space programs due to lack of political will means that private enterprise must now fund mankind's conquest of space. Driven by their quests for profits, these companies have already taken the first steps toward the eventual colonization and industrialization of the solar system.

Management, Space business enterprises, Satellite launch services industry, Space industrialization

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The voice of authority

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History is replete with pronouncements by scientists that dismissed discoveries which were to ultimately affect mankind. For example, Nikola Testa, the pioneer of electricity predicted that airplanes would never replace the dirigible balloon.

Forecasts and trends, Inventions, Technological innovations, Science, Scientists

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Slowboat to the stars!

Article Abstract:

While physicists and science fiction writers have focused endlessly to solve the light-speed limit, it is biologists who have come up trumps with a solution.

Light, Speed, Speed of light

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