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Robots Could Build a Base on the Moon

Establishing a permanent and continuously growing human presence on the surface of the Earth's moon could be a pivotal point in human cultural evolution. Humans could utilize the lunar regolith to...

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The Cost of Carbon-Neutral Energy

Today America and the world finds itself at the dawn of an energy, economic, and environmental crisis. Carbon dioxide and methane gas pollution from the fossil fuel economy is causing the melting of...

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Our Earliest African Ancestor

by Marcel F. Williams In 2002, Nature magazine announced to the world that French paleontologist, Michel Brunet, and his colleagues had discovered the fossil cranium of the earliest human ancestor. The...

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Mining the Moons of Mars

If platinum were required for high efficiency fuel cells for automobiles, only 20% of the world's ground vehicles could be supplied. This of course doesn't even include the substantially higher demand...

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Natural Radiation

by Marcel F. Williams Humans exist on a planet and within a universe that is naturally radioactive. In fact, humans and all other plant and animal species that live and breed on Earth are also...

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Fueling our Nuclear Future

by Marcel F. Williams One frequent argument against the expansion of commercial nuclear power is the the claim that our planet is simply running out of the nuclear material to power the world's nuclear...

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The Relative Safety of the New Generation of Nuclear Reactors

by Marcel F. Williams The Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred on April 26th, 1986 when reactor number four at the Chernobyl electric power facility in the Ukraine had a chemical explosion. Human error...

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US Federal support for non-carbon dioxide polluting energy technologies

by Marcel F. Williams Management Information Services, Inc. of Washington D.C. has recently come out with a report that indicates that most of the US tax subsidies and R&D for the energy industry...

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The Ares V - Super Rocket

by Marcel F. Williams In my opinion, the development of the Ares V is NASA's most important project. The worse mistake the US ever made was decommissioning our only heavy lift vehicle (the Saturn V)...

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Resurrecting the Delta Clipper: The Ares 1 alternative

by Marcel F. Williams "The effort required to resurrect the Delta Clipper program wouldn’t be very great. Many tests showing the proof that the concept works have already been conducted, and the...

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NASA's Long Term Goals for Manned Spaceflight

NASA needs to specifically articulate its long term goals for manned space flight to the American people! We need to know where we're going, why we're going, and how much its going to cost to get...

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NASA's Ares Alternative: The Side-mount Shuttle

President Obama's Augustine Commission review of NASA's future space architecture and the alternatives was set up to be a debate between NASA's Ares 1 and Ares V concept vs. alternate scenarios...

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A Single Payer Solution: Health Care Credit Cards (Part 1)

"If we do not fix our health care system, America may go the way of GM — paying more, getting less, and going broke." President Barack Obama June 15, 2009 in front of the American Medical Association...

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A Single Payer Solution: Health Care Credit Cards (Part 2)

The US Federal government spent more than $808 billion in 2007 on health care (medicare, medicaid, Federal workers, VA hospitals, etc.). If you divide that number by every American citizen, that comes...

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Obama's NASA Decision

The Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee (the Augustine Commission) recently concluded that NASA's Constellation return to the Moon program is running $50 billion over the current budget...

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Colonizing the Moon

The primary focus of NASA's-- manned space program-- should be the pioneering and colonization of the rest of the solar system. That means building the space transportation and habitat infrastructure...

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Funding NASA's Future

by Marcel F. Williams The Augustine Commission testified before the Senate and the House of Representatives last week and were greeted with both praise and criticism by some of the legislators....

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Ares vs the Sidemount  and the Augustine Commission

During Space Shuttle manager John Shannon's presentation of the Side-mount Shuttle (SD-HLV) concept to the Augustine Committee, he showed the committee figures that indicated that a SD-HLV with an EDS...

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The Road: A Storm Warning for Humanity

"It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species," Stephen Hawking There is no film that illustrates the foolishness of confining human civilization solely...

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Obama campaigned for the war in Afghanistan

Obama campaigned against the war in Iraq and for the 'just war' in Afghanistan. The idea that Al Queda will just leave us alone, if we leave them alone is just naive! These are crazy right wing...

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