If you want to process digital logic in a liquid environment – within a biological cell, for instance – electronics just won’t work. What you need is something that does the same job in a different way – like logic gates that are based on the concentrations of chemicals rather than the accumulation of voltages.

What a great and stirring piece of news the NASA moonbase announcement was – it had (and still has) the whole world talking about it. Which means that it may be the perfect smokescreen for the incumbent US Administration yanking the funding rug out from under the hugely important climate and earth science research that NASA performs, as well as robotic explorations of other planets.

Space Politics.com notes that a new website that focuses on supporting political activities of space supporters called SpaceAdvocate.com, for those interested in such a thing.