Authors | Ben Bova
Ben Bova is the author of nearly 120 books of science fiction, high-tech thrillers and nonfiction. He has won six Hugo Awards, is a past president of SFWA and President Emeritus of the National Space Society. His 2006 nove, Titan, received the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best SF novel of the year.
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More energy from the Sun hits the Earth in one hour than all of the energy consumed by humans in an entire year.
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You know you’re getting old when you’re tempted to start an article with, “Back in the old days.” But here goes anyway.
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In the last column we examined ways of building starships that are almost within our engineering grasp.
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Our first starships are already plying their way through the vacuum of interstellar space.
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Is there another planet like Earth out there among the stars? Very likely.
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Do you want to live forever? Maybe you will.
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And now for something completely different.
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Last time we asked “Where is everybody?” and found that it’s not enough to seek extraterrestrial intelligence per se: we ought to be looking for ETs who are more or less at the same level of technology that we are.
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Is there intelligent life in the universe?
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The headline screamed: “OMG! We Come From Space!”
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Usually, gazing out across the crater floor to the weary old ring-wall mountains with the big, blue, beautiful Earth hanging in the black sky above—usually it fills my heart with peace and calm.
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