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David A. Hardy

Chaos theory, the principles underpinning certain nonlinear equations, also requires us to adopt a probabilistic description of many natural phenomena. The sizes and orbital positions of the planets in our solar system, for example, depend sensitively on the starting condition for solar system formation. If we ran the creation experiment again with slightly different parameters, we would get a different collection of planets with different orbital characteristics. But the results are not purely random. If we produced thousands of solar systems, again with similar but not exactly the same starting conditions, we would obtain a well-defined distribution of planet properties and planetary orbits. Although we cannot make exact predictions for any particular experiment, in principle we can determine the odds of getting any one type of planet or solar system. This intricate interplay between chance and determinism occurs throughout our physical universe and can even be applied to the consideration of how, and in what form, life can evolve.

Fred Adams, ‘Origins Of Existence: How Life Emerged In The Universe’ (2002) 

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Welcome planet Mercury in a 1970 illustration by David A. Hardy for Vision of Tomorrow. (AstroArt)

Design graphics Geya Shvecova (Smoky_MOON_171219)

Iapetus, moon of Saturn, observed by the Cassini probe on September 10, 2007, from a distance of about 73,000 kilometers.

Space shuttle re-entry.

Danny Flynn

Rick Sternbach, 1976

Wells-class interplanetary vehicle - Sergio Botero

“By the dawn of the XXII century, humanity’s thirst for Deuterium and Anti-Deuterium became so immense that companies began harvesting raw Hydrogen from the gas and ice giant planets. For that purpose, thousands of interplanetary spaceship tankers that work as refineries were built in order to transport the collected gas from the atmospheres of those planets to space stations over Earth, the Moon and other locations in the Solar System.“

“Intruder Weather” by Lou Drendel. The first squadron to fly the A-6 Intruder in combat was VA-75, in 1965. This is the A-6A of Lt Don Boecker on a typical all-weather mission.