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Renowned English broadcaster and natural historian Sir David Attenborough delivered a stark warning about the future of our planet during the UN Climate Change Summit in Poland, Monday. Attenborough warned that the world’s survival depends on swift action to prevent climate change. “If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction […]
Enlarge / Crater water ice on Mars at Vastitas Borealis, seen by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express. (credit: ESA) This week we all had a good laugh at the expense of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), who asked NASA scientists during a committee hearing whether it was possible that a civilization existed on Mars thousands of years […]
Enlarge / US Rep Dana Rohrabacher, left, in a photo with Neil Armstrong a few years ago. (credit: Dana Rohrabacher) On Thursday, the space subcommittee of the House Science Committee held a hearing to look into NASA’s forthcoming big-ticket planetary exploration missions. Those missions include a Mars 2020 rover, a Europa flyby mission, and potentially […]
Games in the explore-expand-exploit-exterminate (4X) strategy genre can last forever. That’s not just a commentary on how long they can often take to finish, because they can also last forever as viable products on PC gaming marketplaces like Steam. And publisher Stardock is planning an update to one of its games to keep it going […]
Enlarge / Sid Meier (left) and Bruce Shelley appeared at GDC 2017 to reflect on the very first Civilization video game. (credit: Sam Machkovech) SAN FRANCISCO—”Let’s go back in time to 1990,” game developer Sid Meier said to a Thursday crowd at the annual Game Developers Conference. “Back when there was no Civilization.” Meier’s silly double […]
