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Australia enjoys one of the world’s richest, safest, and fairest societies. But an expert in “discontinuous risks” says we need to challenge our cosy assumptions.
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Australia enjoys one of the world’s richest, safest, and fairest societies. But an expert in “discontinuous risks” says we need to challenge our cosy assumptions.
On Saturday, the International Space Station undertook a 'reboost maneuver' in order to avoid a possible collision with the pieces of a Russian military sa
Four companies have joined forces under an international collaboration, to recycle the debris pieces floating in space and produce propellants out of them.
By Matthew Waterman, Director, New Age Alpha While the Kessler Syndrome, or Kessler Effect, isn’t spoken of widely in social circles, its potential impact on everyone’s day-to-day lives is nearly incalculable. Imagine a world without cell phones, GPS or anything else reliant on satellite technology and one starts to understand the implications. According to the Kessler Syndrome, however, that is a very real possibility. The general concept involves the ever-accumulating amounts of junk orbiting the earth and, with it, the also increasing probability of a cataclysmic collision. Humans, unw...