Dr. Phil Metzger

@DrPhiltill

Planetary scientist. Co-founded NASA KSC SwampWorks. Now at UCF Florida Space Institute but still on SwampWorks team. SpaceMining. Space settlement. Science.

Kennedy Space Center & Orlando
philipmetzger.com/blog/
Joined December 2012
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    1 hour ago

    Please help spread the word: Full paid Space Camp Scholarship apps due January 15, 2018 will give up to 16 Scholarships away. Transportation & flight suit included. Please share:

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  2. 52 minutes ago

    I agree with his thesis. We need to move machines off the planet so biology can have more of the planet, and we are now in the process of doing so.

    GREAT TED Talk on the rational of Asteroid Mining by (James Orsulak) of - great passion & clarity. Enjoy:
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  3. 1 hour ago

    I’m excited to be part of this study (though I haven’t finished my part of it yet, refining the specific design choices via physics-based computer modeling). Modeling so far confirms this finding.

    Completed Lunar ice mining concept study for yesterday. Bottom line: business case can close at ULA’s price!!
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  4. 22 hours ago

    An 1847 astro textbook says, "Jupiter has four moons. They have received the names, in the order of their distance from the planet, of Hebe, Ganymede, Themis and Metis. These names are, however, but little used." No kidding. Now we call them Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.

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  5. 24 hours ago

    Why "Uranus"? An 1847 textbook: "The planet Herschel [!!] was discovered in the year 1781, by Sir W. Herschel [who] gave it the name of Georgium Sidus [!!!]...Others named it Uranus, as Uranus was the father of Saturn, Saturn the father of Jupiter, Jupiter the father of Mars."

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  6. 24 hours ago

    Dagnabbit. Yep, the quote I was transcribing says 1781. My fingers preferred other keys on the keyboard, apparently.

    Replying to @OuterBoroRoyal @DrPhiltill
    1781 I think the significance of 1847 is that the book would have been written before/during discovery of Neptune.
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  7. Jan 1

    is my alma mater; I’ll always love them first. is my grad school and where I am faculty, and their undefeated season is at stake. I wish they weren’t playing each other! 😖

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  8. 29 Dec 2017

    Outstanding essay on humanity changing the planet, but from a cosmic perspective. This is why I write about our need to put industry in space, now.

    Getting Climate Wrong. Why we need the Astrobiology of the Anthropocene. Today's 13.7 post.
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  9. 29 Dec 2017

    It's been a weird but productive week. Today I'm working out of a McDonalds. We just submitted 2 papers to a conference (3D printing buildings on Mars; Developing asteroid regolith simulants).

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  10. 28 Dec 2017

    We’re at School of Rock. Sweet seats four rows down from the ceiling. I feel sorry for people in the top three rows.

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  11. 26 Dec 2017

    Couldn't get into the office since my outside key card broke, so I'm running computer simulations in a coffee shop. (The office would be lonely, anyway.) Just plotted the thermal conductivity of icy soil at the Moon's south pole. Looks good for extracting water as a resource!

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    23 Dec 2017

    Gingerbread Imperial Star Destroyer by Lars and Markus Winnansson. I dare you to beat it, .

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  13. 23 Dec 2017

    Bob, 😂👍

    Replying to @PeterDiamandis @HarryDocKloor
    Here is the pic, enhanced...
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    22 Dec 2017

    over Studio City

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    23 Dec 2017

    Off-world heritage sites? Do we need them? Read our interview with 's Michelle Hanlon to find out!

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  16. 23 Dec 2017

    The Cislunar 1000 strategy toward having 1000 people living in space within 30 years.

    Replying to @_frix_ @DrPhiltill and 3 others
    ULA produced Cislunar1000 video is here: also check out Sowers 2016 paper in Space Policy or his paper and presentation at the 2016 Space Resource Roundtable at
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    22 Dec 2017

    I think this is my favorite shot of the launch. What a year. Saw the eclipse & now this, fantastic!

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  18. 22 Dec 2017

    Fluid dynamics. The recent pics of Jupiter and this. Ya gotta love fluid dynamics.

    Baffling, dramatic images of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching over Santa Monica Bay
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  19. 22 Dec 2017

    We’re proving the economic case for this. It could support cislunar transportation needs as well as support a Moon Village.

    Replying to @DrPhiltill
    . Thanks! Your analysis is helping us design the first water mine on the Moon.
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  20. 22 Dec 2017

    Today I'm modeling extraction of water from the Moon, working with Colorado School of Mines and as part of the Cislunar1000 vision for 1000 people living in space within 30 years.

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