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@victor-lucas Oct 4, 2016, 11:58 PM UTC

Why We Should Colonize the Moon Before Mars: Part Two

(Source) I posted the first part of this discussion a few days ago and received a lot of positive support and comments. In that post, I promised that my next post (this one) would outline the case fo…

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@victor-lucas Oct 2, 2016, 11:00 PM UTC

Why We Should Colonize the Moon before Mars

(Source) Whenever the general public talks about space exploration these days, the fixation is on Mars. Mars is the desired gem, supposedly just out of reach. We feel that we are almost there. But in…

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@victor-lucas Oct 2, 2016, 3:56 AM UTC

Pyrrhus of Epirus: History's Greatest Forgotten General and Why You Should Wear a Helmet

Ive been writing pretty consistently about space lately, so I thought I would take a break from that today in order to share one of my other passions...history! There have been a lot of excellent lea…

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@victor-lucas Sep 29, 2016, 8:05 PM UTC

How China is Surpassing the USA as a Spacefaring Nation

A few days ago, I finished off a post I made about NASA plans for sending a submarine to Saturn's moon Titan with the assertion that the growth of China's space program might be the catalyst to launc…

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@victor-lucas Sep 28, 2016, 1:18 AM UTC

Future Technologies: Submarines on Saturn

Okay I lied, this post will talk about NASA's idea of sending a submarine to Titan, Saturn's moon. But "Submarines on Saturn" just had such a great ring to it, I couldn't resist. But I digress. NASA…

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@victor-lucas Sep 27, 2016, 1:53 AM UTC

A Conflict Series: How the United States' Counterterrorism Initiatives End up Feeding Terrorism

It has been more than fifteen years since the September 11 attacks and the consequent advent of the “Global War on Terror”, and yet terrorism remains one of the biggest topics in the news and in our…

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@victor-lucas Sep 25, 2016, 8:46 PM UTC

Future Technologies: How Lasers are Revolutionizing Archaeology

--- I graduated from American University with a BA in International Studies in December 2015 with a regional focus on Asia and a specialty in Environmental Sustainability and Global Health. I studied…

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@victor-lucas Sep 24, 2016, 11:58 PM UTC

A Sustainability Dialogue: Food Transparency at Farm Tank, Sacramento 2016

"Food is an aesthetic experience, an embodied experience." Nikkiko Masumoto on food This past Thursday and Friday, my girlfriend @anwenbaumeister and I went to a sustainable food and agriculture conf…

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@victor-lucas Sep 21, 2016, 11:20 PM UTC

Kessler Syndrome: How Debris in Earth's Orbit Might Prevent Space Exploration

Every second of every hour of every day, there are millions of individual items hurtling through Earth's orbit at enormous speeds. Satellites, rocket stages, loose nuts and bolts, and even flecks of…

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@victor-lucas Sep 16, 2016, 2:56 PM UTC

Cosmic Mysteries: Why the Search for Alien Life Matters

"Are we alone? Do we matter? What is the point of it all?" These questions have haunted humanity since its inception, an existential cry to the heavens that put us here seemingly at random. If we are…

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