Author : Eagle Sarmont
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780692760024
"Opening the High Frontier" is about how to make spaceflight affordable to everyone.
Author : Tom Marotta
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780464706304
Have you ever wanted to live in space? To see the majesty of Earth from orbit, to play in a zero-gravity wonderland, and be on the cutting edge of civilization? Such a place may be built sooner than you think. New scientific research, new technological developments, and new social trends are all combining to make settlements in space easier than ever to build. Not long ago Al Globus, a space settlement expert and software engineering contractor at NASA Ames Research Center, made two key scientific discoveries: - that equatorial low earth orbit (ELEO) has vastly lower radiation than most other places in space, - and that humans can adapt to rotating space structures faster than many people thought possible. These discoveries, combined with a fast-developing rocket industry and burgeoning financial and political support for space development, mean that humanity may be on the brink of a building boom in orbit. In a few decades space settlements could vastly improve life on Earth by developing new technologies, unlocking trillions of dollars of raw materials and energy in space, and opening up a new frontier for all humankind. In this fast-paced book learn how your future in space is closer than you think!
Author : Joan Slonczewski
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765367723
The first SF novel in more than ten years from the scientist and author of A Door into Ocean. A girl goes to college in orbit, in a future transformed by technology, global warming, and invasive species.
Author : Christopher L. Bennett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982133678
An all-new Star Trek movie-era adventure featuring James T. Kirk! Investigating the massacre of a telepathic minority, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise confront a terrifying new threat: faceless, armored hunters whose extradimensional technology makes them seemingly unstoppable. Kirk must team with the powerful telepath Miranda Jones and the enigmatic Medusans to take on these merciless killers in an epic battle that will reveal the true faces of both enemy and ally!
Author : Vernor Vinge
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780312862077
A collection of articles and essays about the new frontier of the Internet, especially a direct interface between brain and computer that enables game players of the future to actually experience the world of their fantasies.
Author : Peter Ludlow
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 43,42 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262621038
This collection of articles on cyberspace policy issues, has been collated from print and electronic sources, together with extracts from on-line discussions of these issues. The topics covered include privacy, property rights, hacking, encryption, censors
Author : Kyle J. Gardner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108840590
Reveals how British imperial border-making in the Himalayas transformed a crossroads into a borderland and geography into politics.
Author : Dorothy Wickenden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 34,34 MB
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439176604
From the author of The Agitators, the acclaimed and captivating true story of two restless society girls who left their affluent lives to “rough it” as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916. In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead Mountains and rode to school on horseback, often in blinding blizzards. Their students walked or skied, in tattered clothes and shoes tied together with string. The young cattle rancher who had lured them west, Ferry Carpenter, had promised them the adventure of a lifetime. He hadn’t let on that they would be considered dazzling prospective brides for the locals. Nearly a hundred years later, Dorothy Wickenden, the granddaughter of Dorothy Woodruff, found the teachers’ buoyant letters home, which captured the voices of the pioneer women, the children, and other unforgettable people the women got to know. In reconstructing their journey, Wickenden has created an exhilarating saga about two intrepid women and the “settling up” of the West.
Author : Robert Zubrin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2000-08-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1585420360
"Robert Zubrin is a true engineering genius like the heroic engineers of the past." --Frederick Turner, American Enterprise Using nuts-and-bolts engineering and a unique grasp of human history, Robert Zubrin takes us to the not-very-distant future, when our global society will branch out into the universe. From the current-day prospect of lunar bases and Mars settlements to the outer reaches of other galaxies, Zubrin delivers the most important and forward-looking work on space and the true possibilities of human exploration since Carl Sagan's Cosmos. Sagan himself said of Zubrin's humans-to-Mars plan, "Bob Zubrin really, nearly alone, changed our thinking on this issue." With Entering Space, he takes us further, into the prospect of human expansion to the outer planets of our own solar system--and beyond.
Author : Vannevar Bush
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 069120165X
The classic case for why government must support science—with a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs from science today Science, the Endless Frontier is recognized as the landmark argument for the essential role of science in society and government’s responsibility to support scientific endeavors. First issued when Vannevar Bush was the director of the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during the Second World War, this classic remains vital in making the case that scientific progress is necessary to a nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Bush’s vision set the course for US science policy for more than half a century, building the world’s most productive scientific enterprise. Today, amid a changing funding landscape and challenges to science’s very credibility, Science, the Endless Frontier resonates as a powerful reminder that scientific progress and public well-being alike depend on the successful symbiosis between science and government. This timely new edition presents this iconic text alongside a new companion essay from scientist and former congressman Rush Holt, who offers a brief introduction and consideration of what society needs most from science now. Reflecting on the report’s legacy and relevance along with its limitations, Holt contends that the public’s ability to cope with today’s issues—such as public health, the changing climate and environment, and challenging technologies in modern society—requires a more capacious understanding of what science can contribute. Holt considers how scientists should think of their obligation to society and what the public should demand from science, and he calls for a renewed understanding of science’s value for democracy and society at large. A touchstone for concerned citizens, scientists, and policymakers, Science, the Endless Frontier endures as a passionate articulation of the power and potential of science.
