Author: Advait Mulay

Terraforming is the process of creating a habitable environment on another planet, artificially. The term first came up in Jack Williamson’s short story Collision Orbit. However, the concept has been around from long before Jack Williamson. Many science fiction writers have explored aspects of terraforming – positive as well as negative. Books such as The Last Judgement, Depths of Time, Farmer in The Sky, The Snows of Ganymede brought terraforming into popular culture. The first book based on the concept was The Sands of Mars by the reputed science fiction author – Arthur C. Clarke. It involved Mars settlers warming…

As our exploration of the solar system continues, we’re going to feel the need for a more effective system of communication. Currently, what we use for interplanetary communication yields poor results. There is significant loss of data packets, resulting in poor quality images from our probes and crafts. The rate of transmittance is less than 1000 bits per second – about 200 times slower than the transfer rate of a standard computer on earth. Not surprising then, that scientists globally are pursuing the idea of an efficient network communication system across planets. Plans have been made and partially implemented to…