Sir Harrie Massey The First ESSC Chair: Vision and Action Personified By PROF CHRIS RAPLEY April 06, 2022 Many people have contributed to the fifty-year history of the European Space Sciences Committee. None more so than the ESSC’s founding Chair, Sir Harrie Massey. Harrie Massey was born in Melbourne in 1908. A child prodigy with […]
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The implosion of the Titan submersible provided a harsh lesson: that the laws of physics are immutable and indifferent to wealth. Similarly ‘global boiling’ will not discriminate. A common trope is that the poor will suffer most. But the rich are not immune. Expensive assets and lifestyles are vulnerable also – to the inevitable economic
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So the Mexican extra-terrestrials may have turned out to be cake. And the NASA report on UFOs was inconclusive. But we are surely being watched? The Universe reverberates with physical action, but biological action appears rare. This could be because the lifetimes of technological species are short, or because those that endure choose to hide their
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The European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC) condemns the attack on Ukraine, abhors the violence taking place, deplores the human casualties and sacrifices, and implores those in a position to do so to restore peace at the earliest opportunity.
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On the Publication of the World Meteorological Organisation’s Global Climate 2020 Report Published on 19th Apr 2021.
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