Colonization Of Near Earth Space

Author : Peter Skalfist
Publisher : Cambridge Stanford Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonization of Near-Earth Space written by Peter Skalfist and published by Cambridge Stanford Books. This book was released on with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several project teams from NASA, ESA and other organizations have investigated the possibility of establishing a colony in orbit. They found that the Moon and near-Earth asteroids have enough materials available, that solar energy is readily available in large quantities. The advantages of this system are its proximity to the Earth and its lower escape velocity, which facilitates the exchange of goods and services.

Author : Cameron M Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461411653
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emigrating Beyond Earth written by Cameron M Smith and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-06-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emigrating Beyond Earth puts space colonization into the context of human evolution. Rather than focusing on the technologies and strategies needed to colonize space, the authors examine the human and societal reasons for space colonization. They make space colonization seems like a natural step by demonstrating that if will continue the human species' 4 million-year-old legacy of adaptation to difficult new environments. The authors present many examples from the history of human expansion into new environments, including two amazing tales of human colonization - the prehistoric settlement of the upper Arctic around 5,000 years ago and the colonization of the Pacific islands around 3,000 years ago - which show that space exploration is no more about rockets and robots that Arctic exploration was about boating!

Author : Stewart Brand
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1Q/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Colonies written by Stewart Brand and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1977 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : T. A. Heppenheimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonies in Space written by T. A. Heppenheimer and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Wanjek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 067498448X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spacefarers written by Christopher Wanjek and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will it take to make humanity a spacefaring species? The usual: good reasons and good planning. Christopher Wanjek explores the practical motivations for striking out into the far reaches of the solar system and the realities of the challenge. And he introduces us to the scientists and entrepreneurs who are already tackling that challenge.

Author : Daniel Deudney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019090335X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Skies written by Daniel Deudney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are planning to colonize Mars. President Trump wants a "Space Force" to achieve "space dominance" with expensive high-tech weapons. The space and nuclear arms control regimes are threadbare and disintegrating. Would-be asteroid collision diverters, space solar energy collectors, asteroid miners, and space geo-engineers insistently promote their Earth-changing mega-projects. Given our many looming planetary catastrophes (from extreme climate change to runaway artificial superintelligence), looking beyond the earth for solutions might seem like a sound strategy for humanity. And indeed, bolstered by a global network of fervent space advocates-and seemingly rendered plausible, even inevitable, by oceans of science fiction and the wizardly of modern cinema-space beckons as a fully hopeful path for human survival and flourishing, a positive future in increasingly dark times. But despite even basic questions of feasibility, will these many space ventures really have desirable effects, as their advocates insist? In the first book to critically assess the major consequences of space activities from their origins in the 1940s to the present and beyond, Daniel Deudney argues in Dark Skies that the major result of the "Space Age" has been to increase the likelihood of global nuclear war, a fact conveniently obscured by the failure of recognize that nuclear-armed ballistic missiles are inherently space weapons. The most important practical finding of Space Age science, also rarely emphasized, is the discovery that we live on Oasis Earth, tiny and fragile, and teeming with astounding life, but surrounded by an utterly desolate and inhospitable wilderness stretching at least many trillions of miles in all directions. As he stresses, our focus must be on Earth and nowhere else. Looking to the future, Deudney provides compelling reasons why space colonization will produce new threats to human survival and not alleviate the existing ones. That is why, he argues, we should fully relinquish the quest. Mind-bending and profound, Dark Skies challenges virtually all received wisdom about the final frontier.

Author : John A. Eddy
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160838088
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sun, the Earth, and Near-earth Space written by John A. Eddy and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Concise explanations and descriptions - easily read and readily understood - of what we know of the chain of events and processes that connect the Sun to the Earth, with special emphasis on space weather and Sun-Climate."--Dear Reader.

Author : Richard D. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Settlements written by Richard D. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erik Bergaust
Publisher : Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonizing Space written by Erik Bergaust and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 1978 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the possibilities of establishing colonies in space that can bring the energy of the sun back to Earth.

Author : Frederic Golden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonies in Space written by Frederic Golden and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses a space-colonization program being developed by physicist Gerald K. O'Neill which includes complete living and industrial facilities operating on solar energy.