Thinking the Future - esa.int 10YearsACT... · White Dwarf cretion Disk Spot . THE MAESTRO alastair...
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Thinking the Future
Alastair Reynolds ACT
ESA/ESTEC
Science Fiction and Science Fact
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Science
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Science Fiction (SF)
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Science and Science Fiction
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Science Fiction or Fantasy?
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Realistic science?
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Somewhere in the middle
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Earth no longer viable for adventure
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Knowledge of solar system still sketchy
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Mars as new frontier
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Mars of Lowell
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Imaginative catalyst
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1950 – 1960s
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Beyond the solar system
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Accessing space
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Starships
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Einstein’s lessons
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Faster than light shortcut
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Hyperdrive
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FTL neutrinos?
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Plausible starship
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Ramscoop
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ISV VentureStar
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Extrasolar planets
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Pandora (+gas giant)
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Science comes back to bite
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Beyond the solar system
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Epsilon Eridani
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EE solar system
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Reverse Traffic
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Alcubierre Metric for a warp bubble
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Kip Thorne
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Traversable wormhole
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Terraforming
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Geoengineering
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Science crushes fiction’s dreams
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SF has to adapt or stagnate
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Imaginative Catalyst
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