According to Douglas Adams, “42” is the answer to the Big Question about Life, the Universe and Everything in his Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. At last, now that we have the answer, we just have to find the … Lire la suite... |
Category: Dico S.F.
Dico S.F. – Bernal sphere
Imagined as soon as 1929 by the scientist John Desmond Bernal, a Bernal sphere is a space megastructure initially constituted with a 10 miles diameter sphere filled with air for a 30 000 individuals population. In its original version, the … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Mecananthropist
Like the cyborg, the mecananthropist, a term formed with the word “mechanic” and the suffix “-anthopist” (from anthropôs, “human beeing”), is a human creature from the fusion of a man and a machine. It was used for the first time … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Cyborg
The term “cyborg” is a contraction for the expression “cybernetic organism”. It describes a creature combining the living and artificial organs in very variable proportions (from a simple prothesis to a completely artificial body). But the brain is … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – O’Neill cylinder
A O’Neill cylinder is a space structure, defined for the first time in 1974 by the physicist Gerard K. O’Neill, which is designed to received permanent inhabitants. The structure is decomposed by longitudinal sections, in turns constituted by liveable grounds … Lire la suite... |
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