The concept design has been unveiled for Moon Village, the first permanent human settlement on the lunar surface.

When we talk about the enormity of the cosmos đ«, itâs easy to toss out big numbers â but far more difficult to wrap our minds around just how large, how far, and how numerous celestial bodies really are. Join us for a cosmic journey to see the size of our Milky Way galaxy: https://go.nasa.gov/2UxkHIN
After years of development in the desert north of Los Angeles, a gigantic, six-engined mega jet with the wingspan of an American football field flew Saturday morning for the first time.
âWe finally did it,â said Stratolaunch Systems CEO Jean Floyd at a news conference from the hangar at Mojave Air & Space Port. âIt was an emotional moment to watch this bird take flight.â
Stratolaunch, the company founded in 2011 by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, conducted the first test flight of the worldâs largest plane.
Environmentalism and climate change are increasingly being pushed on us everywhere, and I wanted to write the transhumanism and life extension counter argument on why I prefer new technology over nature and sustainability. Hereâs my new article:
On a warming planet bearing scars of significant environmental destruction, youâd think one of the 21st Centuryâs most notable emerging social groupsâtranshumanistsâwould be concerned. Many are not. Transhumanists first and foremost want to live indefinitely, and they are outraged at the fact their bodies age and are destined to die. They blame their biological nature, and dream of a day when DNA is replaced with silicon and data.
Their enmity of biology goes further than just their bodies. They see Mother Earth as a hostile space where every living creatureâbe it a tree, insect, mammal, or virusâis out for itself. Everything is part of the food chain, and subject to natural law: consumption by violent murder in the preponderance of cases. Life is vicious. It makes me think of pet dogs and cats, and how itâs reported they sometimes start eating their owner after theyâve died.
Many transhumanists want to change all this. They want to rid their worlds of biology. They favor concrete, steel, and code. Where once biological evolution was necessary to create primates and then modern humans, conscious and directed evolution has replaced it. Planet Earth doesnât need iniquitous natural selection. It needs premeditated moral algorithms conceived by logic that do the most good for the largest number of people. This is something that an AI will probably be better at than humans in less than two decadeâs time.
Ironically, fighting the makings of utopia is a coup a half century in the making. Starting with the good-intentioned people at Greenpeace in the 1970s but overtaken recently with enviro-socialists who often seem to want to control every aspect of our lives, environmentalism has taken over political and philosophical discourse and direction at the most powerful levels of society. Green believers want to make you think humans are destroying our only home, Planet Earthâand that this terrible action of ours is the most important issue of our time. They have sounded a call to âsave the earthâ by trying to stomp out capitalism and dramatically downsizing our carbon footprint.
In early 1962, members of the male space squad gathered at a dining room in Star City and were joined by Yuri Gagarin. âCongratulations! Get ready to welcome the girls in a few days,â announced Gagarin.
âWe, a tiny group of military test pilots selected for the space program, had been living together as one big family in Star City for two years. We shared struggles and knew everything about each other, and now we had to accept new members to our family,â recalled cosmonaut Georgi Shonin.
âWhen we started training together, it was very unusual to hear soft and feminine call signs Chaika (seagull) or Bereza (birch) instead of solid and firm Sokol (falcon) or Rubin (ruby),â Shonin continues. âTheir intonations alone were telling. If a voice was sonorous, everything went as planned. But sometimes their voices sounded pitiful. That meant the instructor was practicing certain failures of the system with them, and Bereza or Chaika was trying to fix the problem.â
When NASA set out to study identical twin astronauts, leaving one on Earth and sending the other to the International Space Station (ISS) for a year, they expected that the rigours of microgravity would have largely negative impacts.
But on board the ISS, Scott Kelly, 51, underwent a very strange transformation which has left scientists scratching their heads.
The telomeres in his white blood cells got longer. Telomeres are the protective caps which sit at the end of chromosomes, protecting the DNA inside, like the plastic aglets on the end of shoelaces.