Join award-winning screenwriter Danny Alex for the very first live episode of Dimension Zero, where science, science fiction, physics, astronomy, and popular culture collide.
Tonight we’ll introduce the vision behind the channel and explore some of the biggest questions in science fiction and the real science behind them.
Tonight’s topics include: • Star Trek. • Battlestar Galactica. • Supergirl. • The Odyssey. • Antimatter. • Physics vs. Science Fiction. • Space Exploration. • Audience Q&A and more!
If you’ve ever wondered whether warp drives, antimatter reactors, faster-than-light travel, artificial intelligence, or the incredible technologies of science fiction could ever become reality, this is the show for you.
Dimension Zero explores The Science of Science Fiction, separating scientific fact from fiction while celebrating the worlds we love.
Fourteen years ago, I sat down with an Italian engineer who gave his novels away for free.
Marco Santini was not chasing royalties. He was chasing readers.
His book The Alpha Centauri Project imagines the 24th century split three ways: humans, artificial intelligences, and souls, the digitized minds of people who refused to stay dead. Their interests do not align. Their futures collide. An interstellar voyage becomes the only way to avoid a war.
It reads like a thriller. It lands like a warning.
What stayed with me was not the plot. It was his stance on the future.
Pessimistic scenarios can always exist. With rationality, optimistic ones can be created.
SpaceX continued preparing for Starship Flight 13 this week with an incredible series of Pad 2 deluge tests, ongoing work at the Gigabay, Launch Pad 1 refurbishment, LC-39A proof testing, SLC-37 construction, McGregor Raptor testing, and activity across Massey’s Test Site.
This week we take a closer look at the massive water deluge system that will support future high-cadence Starship operations, progress on Florida’s launch infrastructure, and the mysterious covered structure at McGregor that continues to spark speculation.
🚀 In this episode:
• Pad 2 conducts an unprecedented series of deluge tests • Gigabay construction reaches another milestone • Pad 1 launch mount refurbishment continues • LC-39A \.
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XI’AN — Chinese scientists have taken a major step toward building a space solar power station, a giant power plant in space that could one day send energy back to Earth or to spacecraft.
A research team from Xidian University in Northwest China’s Shaanxi province has made significant progress on the Sun Chasing project, or “Zhuri” in Chinese. The team has developed a ground-based test system for wireless power transmission that can charge multiple moving targets at the same time.
In recent tests, the system achieved a wireless power transmission efficiency of 20.8 percent from direct current to direct current over a distance of 100 meters. It delivered 1,180 watts of power. The team has also built a wireless charging system for drones. In a test, a drone flying at 30 kilometers per hour was able to receive 143 watts of stable power from 30 meters away.
University of Florida researchers are exploring how lasers could help astronauts build structures on the moon using materials already available there, including lunar soil transformed into glass. The work, led by Victoria M. Miller, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and researcher with the UF Astraeus Space Institute, recently completed a research phase focused on laser forming, a manufacturing process that bends materials without physical contact.
The team’s latest paper, published in Lasers in Manufacturing and Materials Processing, examined how different atmospheric conditions affect laser bending, an important question for future manufacturing in the vacuum of space. The long-term applications extend beyond space exploration and could also support flexible manufacturing efforts on Earth.
“It is also for Earth applications. We’re focused on flexible manufacturing for defense applications,” said Miller, who works in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
When the Space Shuttle retired in July 2011, the United States lost the ability to reach the very space station it had built — and for nearly nine years, American astronauts hitched rides on Russian Soyuz capsules at up to $90 million per seat. Then a private company that had failed its first three rockets quietly closed the gap.
