Planetary Intelligence

Mars as a crucible for Culture

The value of settling a new planet

Feb 26 • 

Kevin Cannon

December 2024

A Scenic Value Index for the Planets

Predicting the aesthetic quality of extraterrestrial landscapes

Dec 10, 2024 • 

Kevin Cannon

1

September 2024

Arranging Atoms

We make moral judgements about how atoms are arranged.

Sep 26, 2024 • 

Kevin Cannon

1

February 2024

The Wonder of the Solar System

You rarely see “wonder” among the rationale for human space exploration and expansion.

Feb 27, 2024 • 

Kevin Cannon

1

We’re Not Going to get Critical Minerals from Space

And that's OK

Feb 5, 2024 • 

Kevin Cannon

1

January 2024

It Won’t Take 1 Million People for a City on Mars to be Self-Sustaining

The real number is likely far less

Jan 10, 2024 • 

Kevin Cannon

1

October 2023

A Clean Slate for Space Resource Extraction

Surprisingly, one has to make a case not to import coal to the Moon

Oct 21, 2023 • 

Kevin Cannon

1

April 2023

Space Green Card

Immigration under the Outer Space Treaty

Apr 30, 2023 • 

Kevin Cannon

1

December 2022

Steelmanning Helium-3

The little isotope packs a punch...maybe an important one?

Dec 6, 2022 • 

Kevin Cannon

3

September 2022

Why is everyone going to the *south* pole of the Moon?

The lunar land down under

Sep 19, 2022 • 

Kevin Cannon

6

August 2022

Friends, Not Food: The Role of Plants in Space

And fish, and birds, and resurrected woolly mammoths

Aug 30, 2022 • 

Kevin Cannon

1

April 2022

The Amundsen-Isaacman-Weyland Model of Private Space Expeditions

Will we soon see a return to the age of polar exploration?

Apr 18, 2022 • 

Kevin Cannon

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