In Part One, I described your six month flight to Mars. Now you land on the Red Planet, expecting the glossy renderings that promised it would be humanity’s next great
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The billionaire class has sold Mars as a destination. A frontier. A backup drive for humanity. But before we talk about domes and dust storms, we need to talk about
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The cosmic microwave background (CMB) has long been treated as the most reliable timestamp in the universe. It’s supposed to be the afterglow of the Big Bang, a snapshot from
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If you’ve ever looked up at the night sky and marveled at how far that starlight has traveled, you’re not alone. Light from the Sun takes about eight minutes to
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Cosmology is supposed to be the science that explains the universe at the largest scale: its origin, history, and fate. For decades, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has been the
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