Water on Mars Raises Questions about a ‘Prime Directive’
I'm looking forward to The Martian, the new film starring Matt Damon which opens this week. The word is that if you like your science fiction with the emphasis on science, rather than fiction, it promises to be a
Mars One – Why Ireland Should be Proud of Joseph Roche
I've written about Mars One before. In principle it's a reasonable idea. Sensationalist headlines have focused on the one-way, lifetime commitment required of the participants but, under the right circumstances, it doesn't seem like an unreasonable sacrifice in order to make
A One-Way Ticket Out of This World – Are the Mars One 100 Out of Their Minds?
One of the topics in our house this weekend was the possibility of interstellar travel using generation ships, among other things (it's that kind of house). We had watched a documentary about the planets discovered by the Kepler
What Will Happen the Mars Colony if They Don’t Get the TV Ratings?
Marooned on Mars! It sounds like a 1950s pulp sci-fi title, but in reality over 200,000 people volunteered to do exactly that, and 1,058 have now gone through to the next phase of selection. Irish scientist
