Space Colonies

Author : T. A. Heppenheimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780811736749
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( 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 2017-09-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there life in space? Within the solar system, which we can reach and are now beginning to explore, the answer may be: Nothing but spores and bacteria. Perhaps the answer is: Nothing. Beyond our region of space the answer may yet be: Civilizations and cultures of greatness and magnificence untold. But we have not yet learned to detect them or to communicate with them. As this has become apparent there has been a reaction against many of the more utopian hopes associated with space flight. Less than fifteen years ago John Kennedy could commit the nation to explore "this new ocean," with widespread hope that we were entering a new Age of Discovery. Today it is fashionable to believe that our problems can find solution only on earth and there is nothing in space which can aid us in any way. This is not so. If we cannot find planets fit for us to live on, or if Mars is not up to our fondest hopes - very well. We can take our own life into space. We can build colonies in space, as pleasant as we want and productive enough to markedly improve humanity's future prospects. And, we can begin to do this anytime we please.

Author : Gerard K. O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789780962234
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The High Frontier written by Gerard K. O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 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 : Stewart Brand
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( 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 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : Fred Scharmen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941332498
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Settlements written by Fred Scharmen and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1975, NASA brought together a team of physicists, engineers, and space scientists--along with architects, urban planners, and artists--to design large-scale space habitats for millions of people. Space Settlements examines these plans for life in space as serious architectural and spatial proposals.proposals.

Author : T. A. Heppenheimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( 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 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Tomlinson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803134704
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space Colonies written by Philip Tomlinson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outer space has been very useful – for satellites and telescopes, but not for humans. The last man to set foot on the Moon was fifty years ago, and the International Space Station is the sole lonely outpost of humans in space. This is now changing, helped by plummeting rocket launch costs.

Author : W. Patrick McCray
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691139830
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Visioneers written by W. Patrick McCray and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the molecular world as the place where society's future needs could be met using self-replicating nanoscale machines. Patrick McCray traces how these visioneers and the communities they fostered blended countercultural ideals with hard science, entrepreneurship, libertarianism and unbridled optimism about the future.

Author : Martin K. Ettington
Publisher : Martin K. Ettington
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing & Building Space Colonies written by Martin K. Ettington and published by Martin K. Ettington. This book was released on 2022-07-22 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing & Building Space Colonies-A Blueprint for the Future One of the greatest adventures in the future of humanity will be to construct, work, and live in space based structures. In this book we look at the history of ideas for living in space, proposed space colony designs, and technology. The details of current life support technology on the International Space Station is reviewed, and what technologies will be required for development of large scale space colonies. What other things in terms of financing and materials availability will be needed also. Finally, we conclude with some recommendations to get us ready to build these colonies.