Category Archives: Space Exploration

The end of the space age

July 20, 2011 – 8:27 am

Today, an era ends. Today the last Shuttle, Atlantis, is scheduled to land for the last time , closing the era of the Shuttle missions, and basically the Space age. Why I say so? Well I don’t think I should spend low-grade effort explaining something that has already been professionally written at the Economist. Instead, [...]

By Stefano Borini | Also posted in Opinion | Comments Off

Where are they?

May 10, 2008 – 11:53 pm

I found a very interesting commentary by Nick Bostrom, about the existence of extraterrestrial life and the so-called Fermi Paradox. The point Nick Bostrom presents is sensible: the current evidence is that life is apparently not very frequent in the Universe. Despite all efforts we did toward finding life, intelligent or not, we failed. Moreover, [...]

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