Wian Erlank (North-West): Rethinking Terra Nullius and Property Law in Space. Paul Stephen Dempsey (McGill): The Emergence of National Space Law. Sarah Fecht on how we could be living on the Moon in 10 years or less — and it wouldn’t actually be that expensive, thanks to robots, 3D printing, and SpaceX. Ziyaad Bhorat on Silicon Valley and the future of democracy: When Elon Musk talks about governance on Mars, what’s really scary are the implications for democracy on Earth. Honey I shrunk the space settlement: Taylor Genovese on Dunbar’s Number and radical politics in space. Seth D. Baum (GCRI): The Ethics of Outer Space: A Consequentialist Perspective. Do no harm to life on Mars? Kelly C. Smith on the ethical limits of the “Prime Directive”. Constantin Zaman on Christianism and extra-terrestrial life.
Mark Adams on the $100 million hunt for alien life: A Russian billionaire and his renegade scientists are launching the most advanced search for extraterrestrials in history (and more and more). Intelligent alien life almost certainly existed somewhere else, study says. Yes, there have been aliens: They may not exist now — but new discoveries imply that they once did. Ria Misra on one of the best explanations for why we haven’t found alien life. Why haven’t we met aliens yet? Because they’ve evolved into AI. Why do we imagine aliens as “little green men”? Mindy Weisberger investigates. How could we build an invisibility cloak to hide Earth from an alien civilization?
Ryan Mandelbaum on how the largest map ever made will unlock the history of the universe. Ethan Siegel on the limits of how far humanity can go in the universe. “Our universe may be an island in a cosmic archipelago”: James Temperton interviews Martin Rees on space, robots and Brexit.
