| Click on the links below for real-world science pages. The web is always expanding. If you know of a page that isn’t listed below, I’d be happy to add it if you send me the url (thank you Alan Anderton and Dave Klingman!). |
Index:
| Links to other groups’ indices:CSIRO Double Helix |
- An Inconvenient Truth (http://www.climatecrisis.net/) — Al Gore’s global warming movie
- Climate Science Watch (http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/)
- “Climate Science Watch is a nonprofit public interest education and advocacy project dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and effectiveness with which they use climate science and related research in government policymaking, toward the goal of enabling society to respond effectively to the challenges posed by global warming and climate change.”
- The Virtual March to Stop Global Warming (http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/)
- “We are marching across America for one year, via the internet, to bring everyone together in one loud clear voice of concern to urge our leaders to address global warming now. The Stop Global Warming Virtual March on Washington is a non-political effort to bring all Americans together in one place, proving there is a vast consensus that global warming is here now and it is time for our country to start addressing it. With the support of leading scientists, political and religious leaders, prominent Americans and concerned citizens, the Virtual March on Washington will move across the United States via the Internet from one town to the next, showing the evidence of global warming’s alarming affects, and highlighting real people’s concerns and real solutions along the way.”
- Global Warming Resources:
- NASA GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies): http://www.giss.nasa.gov/edu/gwdebate/
- NOAA: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html
- IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change): http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/index.htm
- NAS (National Academy of Science): http://books.nap.edu/collections/global_warming/index.html
- SOCC (State of the Canadian Cryosphere): http://www.socc.ca/permafrost/permafrost_future_e.cfm
- EPA: http://yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html
- UK RS (Royal Society): http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/page.asp?id=3135
- AGU (American Geophysical Union): http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/prrl0335.html
- AMS (American Meteorological Society):
- NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research): http://eo.ucar.edu/basics/cc_1.html
- CMOS (Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society): http://www.cmos.ca/climatechangepole.html
- Joint international science academies statement:
- Climate Science News (http://www.inboxrobot.com/news/Climate-Science)
- HOLIVAR2006 Natural Climate Variability and Global Warming Climate and Environment News Feeds – excellent link to get the latest climate and environmental news!
- Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System MAPSS page)
- A landscape to global vegetation distribution model that was developed to simulate the potential biosphere impacts and biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks from climatic change.
- Natural Environment Research Council Rapid Climate Change page)
- Physics Today The Discovery of Rapid Climate Change)
- The National Academies Press Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Abrupt Climate Change
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Summary for Policy Makers
- Kyoto Protocol: http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html
- United Nations Framework on Climate Change: http://unfccc.int/
- ClimatePrediction.net — Join the Global Experiment!
- American Geophysical Union’s (AGU) Statement on Human Impacts on Climate
- National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
- The Climate Institute
- The Heat Is On
- Congressional Testimony of Dr. John Christy concerning the subject of satellite-derived tropospheric temperatures
- Climate Change Science
- The administration’s plan is online at http://www.climatescience.org/
- Environmental News Service reports
- National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
- NOAA Regional Climate Centers
- State Climate Offices
- NOAA Drought Information Center
- National Drought Mitigation Center
- Climatological Probability of a White Christmas
- Climate Indices for the Economy
- Climate Change Indices
- Common Sense Climate Index – NASA/GISS
- North American Droughts in Prehistory (Paleodroughts)
- Paleoclimate
- Climate Data by Country – Tyndall Center
- Earthwatch Institute
- PEW Center on Global Climate Change
- Climate for Schools and the World’s Citizens – ESPERE
- Koeppen Climate Maps
- NASA’s Global Change Master Directory (a directory of Earth science data)
Education and Learning Centers
- Alliance for Science
- The Alliance for Science is a new organization of scientists, scientific groups and supporters, including thousands of Christians. The mission of the Alliance for Science is to heighten public understanding and support for science and to preserve the distinctions between science and religion in the public sphere.
- Science Friday
- Science Friday, provided in part by the National Science Foundation and the Sloan Foundation “is a weekly science talk show, broadcast live over public radio stations nationwide from 2-4 pm Eastern time as part of NPR’s ‘Talk of the Nation’ programming. Each week, we focus on science topics that are in the news and try to bring an educated, balanced discussion to bear on the scientific issues at hand. Panels of expert guests join Science Friday’s host, Ira Flatow, a veteran science journalist, to discuss science – and to take questions from listeners during the call-in portion of the program.”
- Science Friday web site: http://www.sciencefriday.com/
- Find A Radio Station
- Podcasts
- XML RSS Feed
- NPR’s Transcripts
- Archives
- Join Email List
- Café Scientifique
- Colorado Café Scientifique in Denver
- “The Café Scientifique idea started in England a few years ago, based on the French Café Philosophique. In the Café Scientifique, people (often science buffs) come together in a friendly pub after work and hear an informal introduction to an interesting current scientific topic, led by an expert. We take a short break for refreshments, to meet new people, and chat, and then we return for questions and answers and general discussion. All questions and comments are welcome, as this isn’t a seminar, it’s a chance for all of us to express an opinion, expert or otherwise.”
- Café Scientifique, Great Britain
- Café Scientifique is a place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology. Meetings take place in cafes, bars, restaurants and even theatres, but always outside a traditional academic context. Café Scientifique is a forum for debating science issues, not a shop window for science. We are committed to promoting public engagement with science and to making science accountable.
- Science On Tap, Seattle, WA — “A place to eat, drink, and talk about science”.
- Science on Tap is a place where anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology in a relaxed atmosphere. A forum for discussing science issues with local scientists, Science on Tap is based on Cafe Scientifique. We are committed to promoting public engagement with science and to making science accessible.
- Colorado Café Scientifique in Denver
- Design Science Lab
- http://designsciencelab.org/
- The Design Science Lab develops solutions to global and local problems. It does this through a design and planning methodology often referred to as design science. This methodology is inspired by the work of R. Buckminster Fuller, the late 20th century inventor, philosopher, and designer. At its core, the Design Science Lab recognizes the profound contribution ‘ordinary’ citizens can make toward solving our most pressing local, regional and global problems. It engages participants in the development of real-world solutions to the major challenges facing the planet. Using present day technology and known resources, participants develop affordable solutions to local, regional, and global problems. Through direct experience, participants come to understand that individual initiative can and indeed must make a difference in creating a better world.
- http://scholar.google.com/ – Google Scholar is intended as a first stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts and technical reports.
- Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences
- Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) — Nutrition Action newsletter
- Einstein Archives Online — Collected Works of Albert Einstein
- Discovery Place/Kelly Space Voyager Planetarium (Charlotte, NC)
- Smithsonian Institution
- University of Oregon Department of Physics – Astronomy
- University of Oregon Department of Physics – Educational Outreach Server
- NASA’s Astro-Venture — Designing Habitable Planets
English-Metric Conversion Formulae
- Meteorological Calculator
- Computes heat index, relative humidity, wind chill
- Metric System, Metric Conversion Tables
- Unit Conversion Calculators
- Measuring Units Conversion Tables
- Hydrologic Conversions
Environment and Environmental Groups
- 350.org — Don’t know how to facilitate a training, structure a workshop or start a petition campaign? 350.org has a database of activities activists can use, plus primers on fossil fuel divestment, offshore drilling and other environmental flashpoints.
- EcoLeaders — The National Wildlife Federation has developed step-by-step student guides to designing environmental projects on campus. Just as importantly, its web portal encourages students to connect and implement projects on their own campus.
- Environmentalism at the Crossroads: Green Activism in America — This piece by the Foundation for Economic Education discusses how to move the conversation on sustainability forward.
- UIC Office of Sustainability — Lots of campuses now have sustainability departments that student activists can partner with to affect change. The University of Illinois’ efforts are particularly expansive. Look to the Campus Resources section for ideas that can be implemented on campus, or connect with the Office of Sustainability at your school.
- Co-Op America — Practical steps for using your consumer and investor power for social and environmental change
- CERES — Investors and Environmentalists for Sustainable Prosperity
- Ceres is the largest coalition of investors, environmental and public interest organizations in North America. Ceres has brought together dozens of institutional investors to tackle corporate governance issues such as global climate change. Ceres brings investors and environmental experts together to work with companies and industries to address environmental challenges.
- http://www.ceres.org/
- Investor Programs
- Ceres works with investors worldwide to improve corporate and public policies on climate change and other environmental, social, and corporate governance issues. As part of this mission, Ceres launched and coordinates the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), an alliance of leading U.S. institutional investors that collectively manage over $1.3 trillion in assets.
- Investor Network on Climate Risk: http://incr.com/
- UN report: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
- The Apollo Alliance
- The Apollo Alliance is a broad coalition within the labor, environmental, business, urban, and faith communities in support of good jobs and energy independence. Our challenge is to achieve energy independence in one generation. This new Apollo Project, a ten-point plan for energy independence, will bring our country together to rethink and reshape our energy future, to create a stronger economy, a safer world and cleaner environment.
- Scientists and Engineers for Change
- GreenBiz.com – The Resource Center on Business, the Environment, and the Bottom Line
- Energy Efficient Communities
- Westwood
- The location for Westwood is on an urban edge softened by a small orchard and grove of trees in urban West Asheville, NC. Westwood includes 23 energy-efficient dwellings and the original farmhouse clustered around pedestrian commons and central common house.
- http://www.westwoodcohousing.com/
- http://directory.cohousing.org/us_list/
- http://www.ncgreenbuilding.org/site/ncg/public/show_project.cfm?project_id=198
- Earthaven
- Founded in 1994, Earthaven is located on 320 acres in culturally rich, biologically diverse western North Carolina, about 40 minutes southeast of Asheville. We are dedicated to caring for people and the Earth by learning and demonstrating a holistic, sustainable culture. Earthaven’s passive-solar community buildings and individual homes are built of mostly natural materials, usually with lumber milled from trees on the land, and usually with green or red metal roofs for roof-water catchment. We have about 30 natural buildings at Earthaven now. We teach many of the building techniques, mentioned below, at Earthaven. We intend to become a village of at least 150 people on 56 homesites. As of 2004 Earthaven has 60 members, with 50 living on the land, including several young families with children. Our permaculture site plan includes residential neighborhoods and compact business sites, as well as areas suitable for orchards, market gardens, and wetlands.
- Yellow Springs, OH — a model for Agraria
- Community Service, Inc., has produced a proposal for a prototype housing development that, its creators say, promotes energy-efficient building techniques, a sense of community, economic sustainability and local food production. “Agraria will be a practical model for this small town renewal, including the revitalization of the many skills and traditions lost in the rush for industrial urbanization,” says a draft document called “Agraria: a proposal for a post peak oil community development in Yellow Springs, Ohio,” prepared by Community Solution, a new program by Community Service. The Agraria concept, said Pat Murphy, the executive director of Community Service, is driven by the organization’s new focus, peak oil, which is the time when global oil production reaches its maximum and begins to decline, and “by the need to reduce material consumption.”
- http://www.ysnews.com/stories/2005/02/020305_prototypehousing.html
- http://www.communitysolution.org/
- More information can be found by doing a google search on energy efficient communities.
- (Solar) Power to the People
- If you’re paying triple-digit electric bills this summer to cool your house, consider the relationship Ske and Kitty Boniske have with Progress Energy. They’re expecting to roughly break even, and maybe get paid for producing electricity. The Boniskes are the first homeowners in Progress Energy’s western region to employ a “sell all net metering” system that allows residential users to sell electricity to the power company. The couple equipped the home they built in 1993 in Bent Creek (community in Asheville, NC) with a solar energy system that Ske Boniske helped design. Until recently, they weren’t even tied into the electric grid. Their solar system provided all the energy for their household needs using a full array of appliances.
- http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060813/OPINION01/60811057/1006/OPINION
- Asheville Citizen-Times 8/13/06 article (read about it)
- Westwood
- Peak Oil
- Hirsch Report for DOE — “Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, and Risk Management”, by Robert L. Hirsch
- Post Carbon Institute–Learning to live in a low energy world
- Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO)
- The Permaculture Activist
- “In 2006, we celebrate our 21st year promoting the design of sustainable human communities. In North America’s leading (and the world’s oldest) permaculture periodical we offer information on permaculture design, edible landscaping, bioregionalism, cooperative action, aquaculture, natural building, earthworks, renewable energy, practical solutions to the challenges of Real Life, and much more. We provide a current listing of upcoming permaculture design courses and a valuable global networking directory linking students to teachers and information, homeowners to designers and consultants, homeseekers to community, and hope and help for all who desire a healthy happy planet that cares for it’s peoples.”
- Energy Bulletin
- Richard Heinberg’s Museletter–a monthly exploration of cultural renewal
- The Oil Drum–a community discussion about peak oil
- Notes–Our Energy Future: Where Are We Headed and What Can We Do?
- Energy Descent Action Plans
- In response to the inevitability of increasing energy demand in a world of declining oil resources, several communities are preparing plans on how to cope in this environment. The plans cover alternate energy sources, self-sufficiency, and different ways of doing things which are less dependent on fossil fuels.
- Alliance for a Post-Petroleum Local Economy: Community Plans — “Discussion drafts, responses and visions from communities responding to energy decline”
- Kinsale 2021: An Energy Descent Action Plan — Kinsale, Ireland
- “Sustainability students in the Kinsale Further Education College solicited townspeople’s input to develop this plan for prospering during energy decline. Each section describes the present, the vision, and practical steps for implementation each year. Sections include Food, Youth and Community, Education, Housing, Economy and Livelihoods, Health, Tourism, Transport, Waste, Energy and Marine Resources.”
- http://www.apple-nc.org/pdfs/kinsale_energy_descent_action_plan.pdf (Kinsale 2021 pdf for 8.5×11-inch paper) (2.3MB)
- http://www.apple-nc.org/pdfs/KinsaleEnergyDescentActionPlan.pdf (Kinsale 2021 pdf original for A4 paper) (1.2MB)
- Tompkins County Relocalization Plan — Tompkins County, New York, USA
- “Residents of Tompkins County have started writing down their plan for relocalization in the face of peak oil and the end of abundant cheap energy. Their hope is to eventually submit their plan to county government. They have laid out plans for researching several areas of their economy and society, to see what effect peak oil will have.”
- http://ibiblio.org/tcrp/doc/project.htm
- Willits Economic Localization Plan — Willits, California, USA
- “Residents of Willits have formed this group to secure a life for the people of their town using less outside resources and causing less environmental damage. Take a look at their prepared papers including an area energy inventory, a biointensive garden plan, recomendations on achieving energy independence, tips for conducting similar inventories in other communities, and a report on the security of their food sources. The papers and many other community resources are on the group’s web page.”
- http://www.willitseconomiclocalization.org/
- Energy framework paper that discusses steps towards Energy Independence, as developed for the City of Willits and surrounding community: http://www.willitseconomiclocalization.org/Papers/EnergyIndependencePlan.pdf
- Want to conduct an energy inventory in your own community but don’t know where to start? This document also contains notes on related inventories such as water, food and medicine: http://www.willitseconomiclocalization.org/Papers/ConductingAnEnergyInventory.pdf
- How to calculate local food needs: http://www.willitseconomiclocalization.org/Papers/FoodSecurityReport.pdf
- Climate Science Watch (http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/)
- “Climate Science Watch is a nonprofit public interest education and advocacy project dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and effectiveness with which they use climate science and related research in government policymaking, toward the goal of enabling society to respond effectively to the challenges posed by global warming and climate change.”
- Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting
- Eco-News: Earth and Its Environment
- Environmental Defense – Fight Global Warming
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Alliance for Better Campaigns
- Friends of the Earth Legislative Program
- League of Conservation Voters
- REP America
- Sierra Club Legislative Office
. - E/The Environmental Magazine
- Care2 — “The # 1 environmental network for healthy living and a healthy planet”
- Earth Day Network
- International Earth Day Official Site
- Earth Day Coalition
- Envirolink: The Online Environmental Community
- Earth Day Information Center
- The Wilderness Society’s Earth Day Page
- EPA Earth Day Page
- The Wilderness Society
- Friends of the Earth
- Earth Policy Institute
- Greenpeace
- Target Earth Resources
- The Bible and the Environment — God: The First Environmentalist
- The Evangelical Climate Initiative
- Interfaith Council for Environmental Stewardship
- Christian Environmentalism
- Christians must use creation wisely
- Should Christians be concerned about the environment?
- EXOBIOLOGY – A Program of the NASA Office of Space Sciences
- Exobiology at NASA (Ames Research Center)
- Federation of American Scientists/Life on Mars Question
- NASA Astrobiology Institute [requires Macromedia Flash Player]
- UCLA Center for Astrobiology
Fortean Research and Unexplained Phenomena
- National UFO Reporting Center
- The National UFO Reporting Center is “dedicated to the Collection and Dissemination of Objective UFO Data” and their web page has sections on: Reporting a UFO, UFO Data Bank.
- Whitley Strieber’s Unknown Country – Daily News of the Edge
- Earthfiles
- Paranormal Newsletter
- The Anomalist
- Fortean Times
- Men In Black Magazine
- Science Frontiers: The Unusual and Unexplained
- UFO Seek
- UFO Digest
- UFO Magazine
- X Project Paranormal Magazine
- Museum of Unnatural Mystery
- The Face on Mars
- The Enterprise Mission (Richard Hoagland)
- New Mars Face Image Analysis and Comment by Mike Bara
- Seismic Monitor
- Seismic Monitor allows you to monitor global earthquakes in near real-time, visit seismic stations around the world, and search the web for earthquake or region-related information. Developed by the IRIS Consortium (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology).
- Paul Cabay’s Geology Resources
- American Geological Institute (AGIWEB)
- American Geophysical Union
- Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
- European Society of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE)
- Geological Association of Canada
- Geological Society of America
- SOCIETY OF INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONAL EARTH SCIENTISTS
- Climate Science Watch (http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/)
- “Climate Science Watch is a nonprofit public interest education and advocacy project dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and effectiveness with which they use climate science and related research in government policymaking, toward the goal of enabling society to respond effectively to the challenges posed by global warming and climate change.”
- Alliance for Science
- The Alliance for Science is a new organization of scientists, scientific groups and supporters, including thousands of Christians. The mission of the Alliance for Science is to heighten public understanding and support for science and to preserve the distinctions between science and religion in the public sphere.
- HOLIVAR2006 Natural Climate Variability and Global Warming Climate and Environment News Feeds – excellent link to get the latest climate and environmental news!
- http://scholar.google.com/ – Google Scholar is intended as a first stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts and technical reports.
- Aeon: A Journal of Myth, Science, and Natural History
- BBC News UK Edition Science/Nature
- Beakman’s World
- Bill Nye, The Science Guy
- MSNBC Technology and Science
- CNN Nature
- CNN Space
- Discover Magazine
- Discovery Channel Online
- The History Channel
- The Learning Channel (TLC)
- LiveScience
- Current news items falling into several science categories: animal world, human biiology, forces of nature, environment, technology, science of fiction, history, other news.
- space.com
- Current news items falling into several astronomy and spaceflight categories: destinations, news, spaceflight, science, technology, entertainment, spaceviews, night sky, community.
- Nature
- NOVA Online
- OMNI
- SCIENCE Magazine
- Science-related news links
- Science News (the weekly newsletter, Science News)
- Scientific American
- Science Daily
- USA Today Science and Space News
- World Science — the global science news site – long before it’s in the papers
- Yahoo Science News
- NOAA Weather Camp
- NOAA Photo Library home page
- Hydrometeorological State Networks
- National Weather Service real-time national radar maps
- Historical Weather Facts for the United States
- Weather Folklore and Proverbs
- The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Intensity Scale
- Water Conservation Hints
- National Weather Service
- American Meteorological Society (AMS)
- Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) Sydney Centre
- Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
- Central Atlantic Storm Investigators (CASI)
- Medical University of South Carolina Weather@MUSC Library
- National Weather Association
- United Nations World Meteorological Association (WMO)
- PSC Weather Center U.S. national real-time radar
National Aeronatics and Space Administration
- NASA
- NASA AeroSpace Technology Center
- NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- NASA’s Astro-Venture — Designing Habitable Planets
- NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory
- NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA
- NASA Federal Airfield, Mountain View, CA
- NASA For Kids
- NASA FutureFlight Central
- NASA Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field, Cleveland, OH
- NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
- NASA Headquarters (Washington, DC)
- NASA Human Spaceflight
- NASA Independent Validation and Verification Facility, Fairmont, WV
- NASA/JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratories)
- NASA/JPL Deep Space 1 Mission
- NASA/JPL Deep Space 2 Mission
- NASA/JPL Galileo Journey to Jupiter
- NASA/JPL Solar System Simulator
- NASA/JPL Picture Archive
- NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
- NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL
- NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA
- NASA Mars Climate Orbiter
- NASA Mars Globar Surveyor Mission
- NASA Mars Pathfinder Mission
- NASA Mars Polar Lander
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
- NASA SpaceScience News
- NASA Stennis Space Center, MS
- NASA Terra Mission – EOS (Earth Observing System)
- NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA
- NASA White Sands Test Facility, White Sands, NM
- International Space Station
- NASA Space Science News – Interplanetary Christmas (humorous and educational)
- American Society for Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
- Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
(Thanks to Alan Anderton for the following Science Internet Radio info!)
- CBC Radio One’s Quirks and Quarks
- NPR Radio’s Science Friday: Making Science “Radio-Active”
- Planet Earth Radio
- BBC Radio 4 Science
- Australia’s ABC The Science Show
- Contact Talk Radio The Space Show
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- COSMIC SEARCH Magazine (1979-1980)
- NOVA Online: Hunt for Alien Worlds
- NOVA Online: Life Beyond Earth
- SERENDIP SETI Program at U.C.Berkeley
- SETI@Home
- SETI@home STARFLEET Team
- SETI Institute
- SETI Institute – Join TeamSETI
- SUITSAT
- There’s a new satellite orbiting Earth, and it’s a weird one. On Friday, Feb. 3rd, at 6:02 pm EST, astronauts threw an old Russian spacesuit overboard from the International Space Station. This strange experiment is a test of a sensible idea–that old spacesuits might be transformed into useful satellites. The disembodied suit, nicknamed SuitSat, is now circling Earth and transmitting a radio message which you can hear using a police scanner or ham radio tuned to 145.990 MHz (FM). Would you like to listen to SuitSat? Sign up for Spaceweather PHONE (http://spaceweatherphone.com) and you’ll receive alerts when the suit is about to orbit over your area.
- NASA science article
- European Space Agency
- A History of European Space Science, from 1066 A.D. to Present
- ESA – Exploring Space: Ion drives: Science fiction or science fact?
- The Mars Society
- The British Interplanetary Society
- The Moon Society
- National Space Society
- Planetary Society
- ProSpace: The Citizens Space Lobby
- Students for Exploration and Development of Space
- SEDS Austin, TX Chapter“Dr. Krieger’s Laboratory ~ where Constellation Class Star Ships are being conceptualized; home page of the UT Austin SEDS Chapter.” Lots of neat research papers, including: “Technical Challenges of Manned Exploration of Deep Space”, conceptual design of a Star Trek type star ship derived from fundamental concepts of Celestial Mechanics, and a free windows software to study the Mars trajectory, among many others.
- Student Space Awareness, Inc.
- United States Space Foundation
- Students for the Exploration and Development of Space — University of Texas at Austin SEDS Chapter
Superluminal Travel and Time Travel
- Engineering the Zero-Point Field and Polarizable Vacuum For Interstellar Flight – by Puthoff, Little and Ibison
- Excertps from Abstract: A theme that has come to the fore in advanced planning for long-range space exploration is the concept of “propellantless propulsion” or “field propulsion.” One version of this concept involves the projected possibility that empty space itself (the quantum vacuum, or space-time metric) might be manipulated so as to provide energy/thrust for future space vehicles. Although such a proposal has a certain science-fiction quality about it, modern theory describes the vacuum as a polarizable medium that sustains energetic quantum fluctuations. Thus the possibility that matter/vacuum interactions might be engineered for space-flight applications is not a priori ruled out, although certain constraints need to be acknowledged. The structure and implications of such a far-reaching hypothesis are considered herein.
- A Realistic Solution To Warp Drive Without Exotic Energy – by Paul Karl Hoiland
- Excerpts from Abstract: I will show there exists a positive only energy solution to the original Warp Metric that utilizes an Inflation Field based False Vacuum state. The concept of a warp drive or warp field, while originally more a Science Fiction concept, has since the advent of Dr. Alcubierre’s original article become an issue of the real Scientific Community. The original metric and most of those that followed have all been based upon the usage of negative energy to produce the inflation like field in the rear of warp field. This was assumed partly because the original Alcubierre metric required it, and partly because the assumption has always been that to produce a bi-polar gravitational field negative energy was required. However, a closer examination of this whole Bi-polar issue sheds some new light on this whole subject. What I am about to show is that exotic energy of the type forbidden by quantum energy conditions is not actually required to produce a bi-polar field at all.
- Warp drive possible – By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse
- The analysis of the concept of a warp drive by Chris Van Den Broeck of the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium means that building a starship Enterprise is a little closer. Dr Van Den Broeck was reanalysing ground-breaking calculations made five years ago by Mexican mathematician Miguel Alcubierre.
- NASA’s Breakthrough Propulsion Physics (BPP) Project
- Warp Drive – When?
- Faster Than Light Physics
- NOVA Online: Time Travel
- Relativity and FTL Travel (Jason Hinson, Purdue University)
- Superluminal Travel: Fact or Fiction?
- Time Travel Institute
- Time Travel Research Center