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Geopolitics in Space and the Role of the European Union #SpaceEconomy #NewSpaceEconomy #NewSpace #Space

What could a future sovereign Mars economy look like?, Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain What would the economy of a future Mars society look like, and how could it be self-sustaining while being completely sovereign from Earth and its own economy? This is what a recent study submitted to Space Policy hopes to address as a sole researcher discusses a model that could be used for establishing economic freedom on Mars, enabling both monetary and political stability across all Red Planets settlements. This

A collection of articles from the PNAS Special Feature on Space Exploration: Economics, Technologies, and Policies explores key issues in space economics, including the role of the state and firms in technological development, resource management, and economic growth. Read now: https://ow.ly/iOo150Q408u

🆕 Check out our latest 'Researcher in the Spotlight' feature on Mathias C. van Caspel, Ocean Modeller at Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research 🌊   🔍 Learn more about Mathias here ⬇️  https://lnkd.in/eXrm8UnV

A recent paper from #Harvard #University's #Human #Flourishing #Program suggests the possibility of unidentified anomalous phenomena (#UAP), commonly referred to as #UFOs or extraterrestrial beings, living underground, on the moon, or even integrated among the human population. The research also contemplates the notion that these #UAP could be alien spacecraft visiting Earth to interact with their extraterrestrial counterparts. Additionally, the study explores the concept of "cryptoterrestrials" - beings that may be living amongst us while disguised as humans, potentially originating from Earth's future or having evolved from intelligent dinosaurs. The researchers acknowledge that their work may be viewed with skepticism by the majority of the scientific community, but they encourage an approach of humility and openness as the scientific community evaluates their claims. #aliens #UFO #war #Harvard #study #university https://lnkd.in/dJCYyb7A

✨ SPEAKER FEATURE ✨ Barbara Sherwood Lollar is a University Professor in Earth Sciences and Dr. Normal Keevil Chair at the University of Toronto. She is Co-Director of the CIFAR program Earth 4D – Subsurface Science and Exploration. Session description: Humanity continues to dream of life beyond Earth. In popular culture, the encounters with alien planets and lifeforms are what open our eyes to life that is different from terrestrial preconceptions and models. But over the past few decades, the Earth itself has revealed previously unexplored localities and unexpected processes that have challenged us to think more broadly and universally about the fundamentals of habitability. Subsurface “rock-eating” microbial communities have been shown to be sustained on long time scales, isolated from the surface hydrologic cycle. Both field and laboratory discoveries are expanding the spectrum of water-rock reactions that drive the H, S and C deep cycle and provide mechanisms for sustaining deep subsurface life in the absence of interaction with a surface photosphere. Discussions of habitability typically focus on the necessity for fluid mixing and/or spatial geochemical gradients, but recent discoveries suggests apparently thermally and spatially “stagnant” systems may still be habitable through radiolysis. Taken together, insights from terrestrial analog sites suggest new potential models for planetary habitability capable of sustaining chemolithotrophic life on planets where photosynthesis may never have arisen, and have catalysed an expanded search for habitable environments on planets, exoplanets and moons to include not only surface based life but potentially vast subsurface biospheres.

Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (#SUPARCO): Evolution and Prospects This INSIGHT discusses Evolution and Prospects of Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with primary objective of advancing the peaceful utilization of space.

This article of my PhD supervisor has been recently published. Please have a read. Intimate outer space: Towards a politics of gravity, waste, and the spatial orientation of bodies. GeoHumanities. (Sammler 2024). https://lnkd.in/ek3_29YG

Did you miss in our last EOcafe on: Revealing the hidden value of Earth Observation with Valentin Golovtchenko (World Economic Forum) ? You can now watch the recording on our YouTube channel! ⤵ https://lnkd.in/d3xX4SuF

🪐Today is the 161st anniversary of the birth of the philosopher, naturalist, and founder of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Volodymyr Vernadsky. “Humans have to think and act not only at the level of the individual, family or genus, State or any other union, but also on the planetary level.” – Volodymyr Vernadsky. His ideas form the philosophical grounds for all of the NGO "Association Noosphere" activities. According to Vernadsky, Noosphere is a phase of the evolution of the biosphere, defined by the development of the entire ecosystem of the planet, guided by human creative and intellectual development. The rise of scientific thoughts, the unity of humanity in the information field, and peace among nations are conditions for the establishment of the noosphere🌍 This theoretical model laid the foundations for practical embodiment in the activities of the NGO “Association Noosphere”. The Noosphere ecosystem includes creating an environment conducive to nurturing engineering startups in Ukraine, by holding various events and supporting infrastructure projects👌