Steven Tingay – Openforum https://www.openforum.com.au Open Forum offers an independent platform for Australian debate Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:57:31 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 Destination Mars https://www.openforum.com.au/destination-mars/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:02:45 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=46487 Scientists have been working on ways to colonise Mars for almost a century, and the prospect of human exploration has been increased by the growth of ambitious private space companies like SpaceX.

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The great game of asteroids https://www.openforum.com.au/the-great-game-of-asteroids/ Sat, 05 Aug 2023 21:26:21 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=43988 Thousands of asteroids orbit our solar system, and our planet continues to have frequent but low-impact collisions with small asteroids, and rare but high-impact collisions with larger ones.

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Space invaders https://www.openforum.com.au/space-invaders-2/ Sun, 06 Nov 2022 19:58:42 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=40212 The discovery of a “planet killer” asteroid named 2022 AP7 on the other side of the sun highlights the need to track and potentially disrupt near Earth objects which could pose a threat in the future.

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Close encounters of the drone kind https://www.openforum.com.au/close-encounters-of-the-drone-kind/ Mon, 23 May 2022 21:12:22 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=37509 The United States Congress recently held a hearing into “unidentified aerial phenomena” and while it's likely they're drones of terrestrial origin, they're rekindling interest into the possibility of alien visitation.

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What to make of ‘Oumuamua https://www.openforum.com.au/what-to-make-of-oumuamua/ Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:13:52 +0000 http://www.openforum.com.au/?p=18017 We will never see 'Oumuamua again, and we may never know exactly what it is, but its passing will have changed the world if it makes more children contemplate a career in science.

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