Science Fact Category Where’s my giant city-crushing
anthropomorphic walking tank? While I was working on creating
two fictional planets, NASA was busy discovering their real-life
counterparts. Raymond Frazee discusses phasers, laser pistols,
and why it’s never safe to shoot a gun aboard a spaceship. There
is a problem with describing H.G. Wells’ time machine as
“travelling through time and not space” because the Earth is in
constant motion. If the machine remains in the same spot on the
laboratory floor, it follows that it must be in motion too.
Russian construction firm AB Elise has proposed turning one of
the world’s largest opencast mines into a futuristic domed city.
Tower blocks needn’t be the only answer; it is possible that as
well as expanding our settlements into the sky, we might also
expand outward onto the oceans. This could be done by
constructing enormous floating cities. As a successor to the
Space Shuttle, the Skylon spaceplane has been envisioned as a
100% reusable launch vehicle. It will be