Moon Quotes by Seth Shostak

12 Moon quotes by Seth Shostak

Shostak’s lunar musings, though few, pack a punch of scientific curiosity and forward‑looking speculation—ideal for a quick, mind‑expanding pause.

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Five centuries from now - barring unimaginable catastrophe - the moon will be developed real estate. There's economic incentive to exploit the…

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There's no doubt that the Moon is more than a handy night light and a hair restorer for werewolves. It's responsible for…

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The Moon stabilizes Earth's obliquity. Well, almost. The tilt actually varies between 22 and 24.5 degrees - and the variation is enough…

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A factory that can turn carbon nanotubes into a sheet a yard wide and long enough to stretch one-fourth of the way…

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Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His…

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The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A…

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Even if the Moon didn't exist - even if it had been vaporized billions of years ago by cantankerous Klingons - there…

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The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven't even talked about…

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We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan.…

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The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands…

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NASA's Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one…

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The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams…

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