Additive Manufacturing in Microgravity
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The most expensive part of space travel isn’t the fuel. It’s the cargo. Additive manufacturing isn’t a sci-fi magic trick; it’s the key to building shipyards and telescopes at scales rockets were never meant to handle.
The Fermi Paradox: Human Uniqueness and Oddity - What Makes Us Special?
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Why does the galaxy seem silent? Maybe aliens aren’t rare—maybe humans are. We explore the strange mix of traits that turned one clever primate into a technological civilization.
Cosmic Strings – Cracks in the Fabric of the Universe
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Cosmic strings may be ultra-thin defects in spacetime—relic “cracks” from the early universe. How we’d detect them, what they mean for physics, and how aliens might exploit them.
Interstellar Banking - The Galactic Financial System
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Interstellar city-states may dominate future space travel, governing the laser highways that connect stars and shape galactic civilization.
The Space Habitat Diaspora – Humanity Spreads Without Planets
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Humanity may not colonize planets—we may build our own worlds. Explore how rotating space habitats could spread across the Solar System and beyond
The End of Science: What Happens When We Discover Everything?
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Is science nearing its limits? We explore whether humanity could ever run out of discoveries?
Civilizations at the End of Time - How Intelligence Survives the Death of the Universe
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Civilizations at the end of time—how intelligence could survive heat death, cosmic isolation, entropy, and the universe’s longest future eras.
Biohacks & Brain Mods - The Coming Age of Implant Culture
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Biohacks and brain implants are coming fast. From memory upgrades to neural meshes, how will implant culture reshape identity, economics, and civilization itself?
Micro Planets: Building Artificial Worlds with Black Hole Cores
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What if we built entire planets around tiny black holes? Explore engineered micro worlds, artificial gravity, and the future of compact megastructures.
Colonizing Brown Dwarfs – Life Around Failed Stars
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Colonizing brown dwarfs: habitats, megastructures, and hidden homes around failed stars. Could these dim embers power civilizations for trillions of years?
Beyond Rockets - Goddard Centennial
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From Goddard’s first rocket to space elevators and mass drivers, we explore 100 years of rocketry—and the launch technologies that could carry humanity beyond rockets.
What Happens When AI Runs the Entire Economy?
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What happens when AI controls prices, jobs, markets, and growth itself? Explore the future of an economy run by machines—and what it means for work, power, and humanity.
Boron Based Life – Aliens of the Crystal Deserts
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What if alien life isn’t carbon at all? Imagine crystal organisms growing across deserts, powered by lightning and forming vast mineral ecosystems. Could boron life exist somewhere in the universe—and even evolve intelligence?
Post Scarcity Black Markets
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In a post-scarcity civilization where material needs are met, black markets don’t vanish—they evolve. Explore why scarcity shifts to identity, risk, privacy, and desire.
Interstellar City States
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Interstellar city-states may dominate future space travel, governing the laser highways that connect stars and shape galactic civilization.
Panspermia: Could Alien Comets Be Seeding Life Through the Universe?
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Could life on Earth have arrived from space? Explore panspermia, alien comets, and how life might spread across the galaxy.
Fleet Unity - Humanity’s First Interstellar Armada
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Humanity’s first interstellar ark becomes something bigger. Explore Fleet Unity—a roaming civilization, ship-turned-shipyard, and the birth of humanity’s first true interstellar armada.
Big Alien Theory
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Why might alien intelligence evolve at gigantic scales? Big Alien Theory explores how size alone could silence advanced civilizations.
Interstellar Relays - Moving Signals and Spaceships Between the Stars
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How interstellar relays could move data, cargo, and starships between stars using lasers, light sails, and cosmic-scale infrastructure.
Alien Mathematics
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Is math truly universal—or just human? Explore how alien minds might think, count, and reason in ways we don’t recognize as mathematics at all.
Space Hotels - How Close Are We to Vacationing in Orbit?
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How close are we to vacationing in orbit? Space hotels, real costs, and the tipping point where space tourism becomes normal.
Wormhole Stableways – Constructing and Navigating Artificial Shortcuts Through Space
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Could we build wormholes and travel the galaxy? Exploring stable wormholes, spacetime shortcuts, and the future of interstellar civilization.
Deep Space Habitats – Designing Self Sustaining Biomes for Interstellar Journeys
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How and why would humans live far from stars? Exploring deep-space habitats, artificial suns, and megastructures.
The QR code is fine but the in post link seems to be broken, use this one to go right tot he submission form isdc.nss.org/abstracts/
At this year's International Space Development Conference we'll be running around 20 presentation tracks from June 4-7th, and this year I will be co-chairing our new "Interstellar" Track
I hope you'll submit an abstract for it or any ISDC topic.
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Plasma Based Lifeforms - Could Creatures of Fire and Lightning Exist?
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Could life exist as plasma or lightning? Explore plasma-based aliens, fire creatures, and exotic physics beyond chemistry.
Does Humanity Need To Be Unified To Survive and Settle Space?
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Must humanity unite to colonize space, or can rivalry and diversity be our greatest strengths among the stars?
The Fermi Paradox: Air — Atmospheres as a Great Filter
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Why is air the rarest and most crucial ingredient for life? We explore how atmospheres form, fail, and filter entire worlds—and how this shapes the Fermi Paradox and the search for alien civilizations.
Asteroid City States – Living in Mobile Habitats Powered by Resource Extraction
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Asteroid mines become mobile city-states. Explore how hollowed asteroids grow into sovereign habitats, economies, and civilizations.
Hidden Alien Empires: Shadow Civilizations & Exostellar Realms
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What if alien civilizations exist—but chose to hide? Exploring shadow empires, cosmic silence, and the limits of secrecy in space.