A Mars Odyssey

This week’s host for Fraser Crain’s “Carnival of Space” is Crowlspace with a very large group of submissions. Check it out, as there is a nice variety of space and science blend to choose from!!

Welcome to the Carnival of Space, brought to you this week by Crowlspace and the never-tiring efforts of Fraser Cain and Universe Today. First cab off the rank is musings by Paul Gilster (Centauri Dreams) who ponders the difficulty of interstellar travel as depicted by Robert Frisbee who brings us the 160 million ton antimatter powered starship (see this old “Discover” magazine piece Star Trek for more details.) “Crowlspace” also covers Frisbee’s rather gloomy prognostications here… Antimatter Ain’t What it Used to Be

Also on theme Brian Wang’s Next Big Future gives another viewpoint on the difficulty of antimatter rocketry and the relative ease of leaving the engines at home and riding a beam… Interstellar Prospects

Next Nancy Houser of A Mars Odyssey ponders the dangerously variable magnetic field of the Earth… A Newly Found Dent in Earth’s Protective Bubble…. Dr.Ian O’Neill puzzles over the folly of media hyping of a radio detection of the Galactic Core… No, An Alien Radio Signal Has Not Been Detected…AND MORE!!

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