About
Feb 7th, 2006 by Anthony Kendall
Welcome to Anthonares.net!
This site is written and maintained by me, Anthony Kendall. I’m a graduate student in the geological sciences at Michigan State University. Feel free to email me at: kendal30 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Here’s a blog entry I wrote that summarizes my rationale in selecting the topics I write about. Basically, it’s summarized by the tagline well: “Chronicling and Commenting on Human Progress.”
Other Writings on The Web
I am a regular contributor at Damn Interesting, a blog about interesting things in every field of study or aspect of life. Each of my articles I write there is linked in the RSS feed from this site. Also, here are all of the articles I’ve written in reverse chronological order.
I was a member of the Mars Society’s FMARS crew in 2005. Here are my scientific and narrative reports, and those of the other members of our crew.
Last October I published a piece in The Space Review promoting the capability of human field scientists in planetary exploration. It is entitled, Giving Future Human Space Explorers the Credit They’re Due.

[…] One of my favorite websites is Anthonares. The current essay responds to Nicola Pugno’s article claiming that Space Elevator’s are impossible with today’s technology (including carbon nanotubes). The author, Anthony Kendall, is not dismayed by Pugno’s claims and offers his take on how the issues raised might be addressed. […]