The future of humanity : terraforming Mars, interstellar travel, immortality, and our destiny beyond Earth
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- ISBN: 9780385542760
- ISBN: 0385542763
- ISBN: 9780385542777
- ISBN: 0385542771
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xx, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-324) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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