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Internet and Railroad

4. March 2018 by stefan 1 Comment

The invention of the railroad has changed the world. For the first time, both people and goods could be transported fast, long-distance and in great numbers. Almost 200 years later, the Internet started a similar revolution. Today information travels the globe with lightning speed. The first revolution was powered by steel and steam. The second revolution was driven by cables and electrons. But both of them followed similar patterns. This article analyses the similarities of both systems and what we can learn from them.

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An Interplanetary Transportation System

25. February 2018 by stefan Leave a Comment

Many people dream of colonizing Mars and of using ressources in space to improve life on Earth. To make these dreams come true, we both need an industry in space and an interplanetary transportation system. This article gives an outlook how such an interplanetery transporation system could look like.

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Autonomous Cars – What Impact Will They Have?

3. December 2017 by stefan Leave a Comment

The latest hype in the car industry is the autonomous car. It seems like the dream of a vehicle that can drive on its own is within our grasp and that is is only a matter of a few years until we can buy one. This will free us of driving ourselves and will enable driverless taxis, make private cars superfluous and replace all local transport. At least this is what we can read these days in the newspapers. But is it true? This article tries to examine what impact the introduction of self-driving vehicles might have on our streets, our cities and our lives.

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VIP Transport – How Celebrities Arrive Safely

26. November 2017 by stefan Leave a Comment

Whenever a celebrity or a person of public interest dies in an accident, it gets a lot of attention in the media. Whenever I recollect all the accidents of VIPs I can remember, I think I can see a pattern. The vast majority of them died in car accidents, like James Dean, Lady Di, Falco or Grace Kelly. Some others died in plane crashes, like Buddy Holly or Juri Gagarin. But I can’t remember any VIP who died in a train crash or in a sinking ship. Does this perceived pattern match with official statistics, and does it suggest anything to increase the survival rate of celebrities – and normal people, too?

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The Space Elevator

19. November 2017 by stefan Leave a Comment

If we ever want to colonize the moon or other planets like Mars, we will need to transport huge amounts of material and many colonists to space. Doing this with rockets is costly, inefficient and also dangerous. What if we could lift material and people into space just like an elevator? This is the concept of the Space Elevator. This article summarizes the concept of the Space Elevator and examines what would happen if we really built one.

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A Transportation System on Mars

16. October 2017 by stefan 2 Comments

A colony on Mars has been a dream and a vision for many people. The plans for a trip to Mars that SpaceX and Elon MuskĀ revealed earlier this year have given these dreams a fresh boost. Should Humans ever go to Mars and establish a colony there, they will need a functioning, self-sustaining economy. This economy will need a transport infrastructure to support it. In this article, I lay out how this infrastructure could look like and which forces influence it.

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