http://21stcenturywaves.com/blog TECHNOLOGY BOOMS AND HUMAN EXPANSION INTO THE COSMOS Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:22:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a list of our readers' favorite posts for November, 2008, based on the number of times each post was visited during November. For current lists of readers' favorite posts for all previous months please click HERE. For updated lists of readers' favorite posts for the last 7 days ... http://21stcenturywaves.com/blog/2008/12/01/readers-favorite-posts-november/ Riveting polar expeditions of the 1903 Maslow Window resulted in the discovery of the north pole by Adm. Robert Peary (U.S.) in 1909 and the south pole by Roald Amundsen (Norway) in 1911; this "pole mania" featured daring adventure, international competition, and tragic accidents. The Peary/Amundsen Maslow Window has intriguing ... http://21stcenturywaves.com/blog/2008/11/29/10-lessons-peary-amundsen-teach-us-about-the-human-future-in-space/ Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving holiday! 21stCenturyWaves.com is again happily participating in the Carnival of Space (#81), this week hosted by Tiny Mantras. If you’d like to sample a number of excellent space-related weblogs, please click HERE. The Carnival is run by Fraser Cain, publisher of Universe Today. http://21stcenturywaves.com/blog/2008/11/28/happy-thanksgiving-everybody/ Last week the National Intelligence Council (NIC) released its most recent unclassified global briefing, Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World that closely parallels forecasts of this weblog. 21stCenturyWaves.com forecasts are based on patterns in long-term trends in the economy, technology, exploration, and society over the last 200 years, that ... http://21stcenturywaves.com/blog/2008/11/23/national-intelligence-council-report-supports-maslow-window-forecasts/ Like James Bond, who believed that "The World is Not Enough!", The Planetary Society thinks the Moon is not enough...and frankly I agree with them! The World is not enough... Click . I've always liked Lou Friedman and The Planetary Society! Explore the planets, humans to Mars, an international team -- what's ... http://21stcenturywaves.com/blog/2008/11/22/the-moon-is-not-enough/ This is a recent sample of the intriguing ways 21stCenturyWaves.com is being portrayed on the web. Apologies if I couldn’t mention you this time. Thanks to everyone who’s visited 21stCenturyWaves.com. Colonizing Mars Project -- Key Largo School, Key Largo, FL Great Mars colonization site! Thanks for linking to: A New NASA for ... http://21stcenturywaves.com/blog/2008/11/20/21st-century-waves-on-the-web-a-recent-sample-112008/ "The prime exploratory challenge of the next fifty years is...surely to seek firm evidence for, or against, the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence," according to Martin Rees, professor of cosmology and astrophysics at Cambridge University and Astronomer Royal; (see The Next Fifty Years, John Brockman, Ed., 2002). Finding extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) would ... http://21stcenturywaves.com/blog/2008/11/18/how-we-could-spot-nearby-space-aliens/ This is an updated biweekly list of our readers' favorite posts, based on the number of times each post was visited during the times indicated below. The lists below include both Daily Wavelet posts and State of the Wave posts. Timeframes of the readers' lists below are: I) Favorites over ... http://21stcenturywaves.com/blog/2008/11/15/readers-favorite-posts-111408/ There is little doubt that proper use of modern marketing techniques would help NASA sell human spaceflight. Bob Scaringe, president of AVG Communications (Marietta, GA) quotes a 2007 poll (AIAA 2008-7872) indicating that, on the average, responders believed NASA received 24% of the federal budget, when in reality it got ... http://21stcenturywaves.com/blog/2008/11/14/whats-even-more-exciting-than-humans-to-mars/ In a historic election, American voters have chosen Barack Obama as their President-Elect. So it's of interest now to evaluate how our long wave forecast model held up and what this selection means for the human future in space, and especially the onset of the 2015 Maslow Window. As stated ... http://21stcenturywaves.com/blog/2008/11/10/state-of-the-wave-politics-focus-sunday-11908/