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Page 1: Thinking the Future - esa.int 10YearsACT... · White Dwarf cretion Disk Spot . THE MAESTRO alastair reynolds BLUE REMEMB R D EARTH IS THIS LAST - NOOK . Q U ADR A BARRIER N D EL TA

Thinking the Future

Alastair Reynolds ACT

ESA/ESTEC

Science Fiction and Science Fact

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Science

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Science Fiction (SF)

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Science and Science Fiction

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Science Fiction or Fantasy?

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Realistic science?

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Somewhere in the middle

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Earth no longer viable for adventure

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Knowledge of solar system still sketchy

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Mars as new frontier

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Mars of Lowell

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Imaginative catalyst

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1950 – 1960s

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Beyond the solar system

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Accessing space

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Starships

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Einstein’s lessons

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Faster than light shortcut

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Hyperdrive

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FTL neutrinos?

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Plausible starship

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Ramscoop

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ISV VentureStar

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Extrasolar planets

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Pandora (+gas giant)

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Science comes back to bite

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Beyond the solar system

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Epsilon Eridani

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EE solar system

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Reverse Traffic

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Alcubierre Metric for a warp bubble

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Kip Thorne

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Traversable wormhole

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Terraforming

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Geoengineering

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Science crushes fiction’s dreams

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SF has to adapt or stagnate

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Imaginative Catalyst

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