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Deep Space Habitats – Designing Self Sustaining Biomes for Interstellar Journeys
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How and why would humans live far from stars? Exploring deep-space habitats, artificial suns, and megastructures.
The QR code is fine but the in post link seems to be broken, use this one to go right tot he submission form isdc.nss.org/abstracts/
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At this year's International Space Development Conference we'll be running around 20 presentation tracks from June 4-7th, and this year I will be co-chairing our new "Interstellar" Track
I hope you'll submit an abstract for it or any ISDC topic.
isdc.nss.org/isdc-years/i...
Plasma Based Lifeforms - Could Creatures of Fire and Lightning Exist?
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Could life exist as plasma or lightning? Explore plasma-based aliens, fire creatures, and exotic physics beyond chemistry.
Does Humanity Need To Be Unified To Survive and Settle Space?
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Must humanity unite to colonize space, or can rivalry and diversity be our greatest strengths among the stars?
The Fermi Paradox: Air — Atmospheres as a Great Filter
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Why is air the rarest and most crucial ingredient for life? We explore how atmospheres form, fail, and filter entire worlds—and how this shapes the Fermi Paradox and the search for alien civilizations.
Asteroid City States – Living in Mobile Habitats Powered by Resource Extraction
youtu.be/2RZWm1-1U6A
Asteroid mines become mobile city-states. Explore how hollowed asteroids grow into sovereign habitats, economies, and civilizations.
Hidden Alien Empires: Shadow Civilizations & Exostellar Realms
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What if alien civilizations exist—but chose to hide? Exploring shadow empires, cosmic silence, and the limits of secrecy in space.
How Big Could a Space Habitat Get?
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How big could space habitats really get? From O’Neill cylinders to Ringworlds and Topopolises, we explore the true limits of megastructure scale.
The Anthropic Principle – Are We Meant to Be Here, or Just Lucky?
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Are we here by design, chance, or selection bias? The Anthropic Principle, fine-tuning, doomsday math, and Boltzmann brains.
Cryogenic Arks – Sleeping Through the Ages
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From frozen habitats to millennia-long journeys, we explore the science behind cryogenic arks and deep-time interstellar travel.
Berserker Aliens: The Deadliest Answer to the Fermi Paradox
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Are Berserker probes hunting advanced life? Exploring the deadliest Fermi Paradox solution.
5 Sci-Fi Fantasies That Could Soon Become Reality
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Five sci-fi technologies becoming real today, from BCIs to space elevators.
Post Stellar Civilizations - Life After The Last Star Fades
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Stars won’t last forever, but civilizations might. Join us as we journey into the post-stellar future, where Dyson remnants, black holes, and exotic physics could sustain life long after the galaxies fade.
The Universe’s Unopened Gifts: Hidden Worlds and the Spirit of Discovery
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Explore the hidden frontiers of the cosmos — from dark matter and rogue planets to quantum mysteries — and uncover the Universe’s greatest unopened gifts of discovery.
Which Stars Could We Live Around? Ranking Every Type of Star
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From giant O-stars to dim brown dwarfs, we rank every stellar class by how well they could host life, Dyson swarms, and advanced civilizations across cosmic time.
The Fermi Paradox & Fossil Fuels
youtu.be/Z4sKKQUZcRE
Does the Universe stay quiet because alien species burn through fossil fuels and collapse?
Alien Overlords Have Conquered Earth... Now What?
youtu.be/RiZgVgxKZCM
The invasion is over. The aliens won. Now humanity must live under their rule. Explore the aftermath of conquest.
Strange Lifeforms: The Chemistry of Alien Worlds
youtu.be/Tf0AzvDrfE4
Explore the universe’s strangest possible life—boron creatures, sulfur beasts, crystal minds, ammonia swimmers, methane organisms, and more in this deep dive into alien chemistry.
The Anthropic Principle – Are We Meant to Be Here, or Just Lucky?
youtu.be/Tf0AzvDrfE4
Explore the universe’s strangest possible life—boron creatures, sulfur beasts, crystal minds, ammonia swimmers, methane organisms, and more in this deep dive into alien chemistry.
Vacuum Decay - Escaping the End of Physics Itself
youtu.be/HMw9D3sOhO0
Discover the science behind vacuum decay, the ultimate cosmic doomsday.
Bubble Habitats & Zero G Megastructures
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Explore the future of living in weightlessness—bubble habitats, floating cities, and zero-gravity megastructures where humanity learns to thrive without up or down.
The Myth of Mutation: Why Superpowers Don’t Evolve... and What Might
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Superpowers make great fiction, but evolution doesn’t work that way. We explore why mutations can’t give us instant abilities—and what real science could create instead.
Surviving the Death of the Sun - Moving Earth or Finding a New Home
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Discover how to move worlds and forge new stars.
Developing a Cis-Lunar Economy - Our Road to the Stars
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Explore the roadmap to building an economy between Earth and the Moon.
Beyond Alpha Centauri - Exploring Nearby Stars
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Humanity’s first interstellar missions may reach Alpha Centauri—but what comes next? Explore nearby stars, colony plans, and how we’ll build civilizations beyond our stellar neighbor.
Orbital Farms: Humanity’s Next Agricultural Revolution
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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
As humanity expands into space, we’ll need new ways to grow food. Explore how orbital farms could sustain billions—on Earth, Mars, and beyond.
Ark Swarms - Dispersing Humanity Across the Stars to Prevent Extinction
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To colonize the Milky Way, humanity must travel in fleets, not alone. Ark Swarms shows how interstellar swarms can secure our future among the stars.
The Future of Humanity: What Will We Become?
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From cyborgs to hive minds and civilizations of pure thought, we trace the possible futures of our species through the next trillion tomorrows.
Could We Nuke Mars’ Core to Restart Its Spin? | New Insights into the Red Planet’s Heart
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Mars once had a magnetic field—can we bring it back? Learn what new seismic data reveals about the Red Planet’s heart and whether nuclear power could restart its spin.
