The future of humanity terraforming Mars, interstellar travel, immortality, and our destiny beyond Earth
"Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility--and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we mus...
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New York :
Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Toward a multiplanet species
- Part I: Leaving the Earth
- Preparing for liftoff
- New golden age of space travel
- Mining the heavens
- Mars or bust
- Mars: the garden planet
- Gas giants, comets, and beyond
- Part II: Voyage to the stars
- Robots in space
- Building a starship
- Kepler and a universe of planets
- Part III: Life in the universe
- Immortality
- Transhumanism and technology
- Search for extraterrestrial life
- Advanced civilizations
- Leaving the universe.
