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← The real obstacle to a Mars landing is closed-loop life support, not propulsion.
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Read this korrent: The real obstacle to a Mars landing is closed-loop life support, not propulsion.
The real obstacle to a Mars landing is closed-loop life support, not propulsion.
Last stated 4 years ago
1 Jan 2023
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Maciej Cegłowski — holds since 2023-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A Mars base is not a backup plan for climate change or nuclear war, because self-sufficiency there is centuries away. — tap to centre the map on it
A Mars base is not a backup plan for climate change or nuclear war, because self-sufficiency there is centuries away.
Last stated 2 years ago
22 Dec 2024
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Adam Frank — holds since 2024-12-22 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Landing people on Mars would contaminate it and destroy the evidence of life we went there to find. — tap to centre the map on it
Landing people on Mars would contaminate it and destroy the evidence of life we went there to find.
Last stated 4 years ago
1 Jan 2023
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Maciej Cegłowski — holds since 2023-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world. — tap to centre the map on it
A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
18 Aug 2026
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Casey Handmer — holds since 2025-10-31 — tap for who they are
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Eric Berger — holds since 2026-08-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Planetary protection rules will keep astronauts on Mars away from everything on Mars worth studying. — tap to centre the map on it
Planetary protection rules will keep astronauts on Mars away from everything on Mars worth studying.
Last stated 4 years ago
1 Jan 2023
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Maciej Cegłowski — holds since 2023-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The goal of spaceflight is the whole solar system, not any single destination the experts are arguing over. — tap to centre the map on it
The goal of spaceflight is the whole solar system, not any single destination the experts are arguing over.
Last stated 12 years ago
18 Sept 2014
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Wayne Hale — holds since 2014-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The Mars programme is a faith rather than a policy: it survives because people believe in it, not because it has a purpose. — tap to centre the map on it
The Mars programme is a faith rather than a policy: it survives because people believe in it, not because it has a purpose.
Last stated 4 years ago
1 Jan 2023
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Maciej Cegłowski — holds since 2023-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: NASA can still be reorganised into an agency that exploits cheap heavy lift, and the next administrator will decide whether it is. — tap to centre the map on it
NASA can still be reorganised into an agency that exploits cheap heavy lift, and the next administrator will decide whether it is.
Last stated 2 years ago
2 Oct 2024
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Casey Handmer — holds since 2021-03-04 — tap for who they are
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Casey Handmer — no longer holds since 2024-10-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A crewed spacecraft does no work: putting people aboard is what stops a mission getting anything done. — tap to centre the map on it
A crewed spacecraft does no work: putting people aboard is what stops a mission getting anything done.
Last stated 4 years ago
1 Jan 2023
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Maciej Cegłowski — holds since 2023-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A country cannot fund its own industrial strategy and call the same policy cheating when China does it. — tap to centre the map on it
A country cannot fund its own industrial strategy and call the same policy cheating when China does it.
Last stated a year ago
15 May 2025
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Hannah Ritchie — holds since 2025-05-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A few square miles at the Moon's south pole are the only lunar real estate that matters, and whoever gets there first sets the terms. — tap to centre the map on it
A few square miles at the Moon's south pole are the only lunar real estate that matters, and whoever gets there first sets the terms.
Last stated 3 weeks ago
18 Aug 2026
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Eric Berger — holds since 2026-08-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A large, sustained AI capability lead by either the US or China could shift the global balance of power between them. — tap to centre the map on it
A large, sustained AI capability lead by either the US or China could shift the global balance of power between them.
Last stated 2 days ago
5 Sept 2026
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Noah Smith — holds since 2026-09-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: AI-related cybersecurity damage over the next year or two will fall well short of the harm caused by Covid or global warming — tap to centre the map on it
AI-related cybersecurity damage over the next year or two will fall well short of the harm caused by Covid or global warming
Last stated 6 days ago
1 Sept 2026
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Tyler Cowen — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: All five mass extinctions were ultimately climate change — the climate shifting faster than life could adapt to it. — tap to centre the map on it
All five mass extinctions were ultimately climate change — the climate shifting faster than life could adapt to it.
Last stated a year ago
4 Sept 2025
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Dave Hone — holds since 2025-09-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Canada should build a pipeline carrying at least a million barrels a day of low-emission Alberta oil to Asia, paired with large-scale carbon capture. — tap to centre the map on it
Canada should build a pipeline carrying at least a million barrels a day of low-emission Alberta oil to Asia, paired with large-scale carbon capture.
Last stated 3 months ago
28 May 2026
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Mark Carney — holds since 2026-05-28 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A country cannot have radical technological breakthroughs and also refuse to tolerate uncomfortably rich people, because the financial system it resents is what funds the innovation. — tap to centre the map on it
A country cannot have radical technological breakthroughs and also refuse to tolerate uncomfortably rich people, because the financial system it resents is what funds the innovation.
Last stated a year ago
13 Aug 2025
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Keyu Jin — holds since 2025-08-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A country's large trade deficit in manufactured goods reduces its manufacturing employment below what it would be with balanced trade. — tap to centre the map on it
A country's large trade deficit in manufactured goods reduces its manufacturing employment below what it would be with balanced trade.
Last stated today
7 Sept 2026
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Paul Krugman — holds since 2026-09-07 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A nuclear war between the United States and Russia would kill five billion people. — tap to centre the map on it
A nuclear war between the United States and Russia would kill five billion people.
Last stated 2 years ago
22 Mar 2024
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Annie Jacobsen — holds since 2024-03-22 — tap for who they are
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