Author : James E. Oberg
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811710077
This exciting new volume presents every ship in which Admiral Horatio Nelson served, in full detail, for the first time. Includes a comprehensive background of each vessel and the incidents that occurred when Nelson was aboard each ship. 45 photos. 40 line drawings.
Author : Michael E. Summers
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 1588345955
The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than the sheer number of exoplanets is their variety. In Exoplanets, astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries: planets revolving around pulsars, planets made of diamond, planets that are mostly water, and numerous rogue planets wandering through the emptiness of space. This captivating book reveals the latest discoveries and argues that the incredible richness and complexity we are finding necessitates a change in our questions and mental paradigms. In short, we have to change how we think about the universe and our place in it, because it is stranger and more interesting than we could have imagined.
Author : Michel Mayor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521812070
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Author : Eckhart Tolle
Publisher : Penguin Life
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0452289963
"First published in the United States of America by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2005"--Copyright page.
Author : Charles Wohlforth
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 24,73 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0804172420
We are at the cusp of a golden age in space science, as increasingly more entrepreneurs—Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos—are seduced by the commercial potential of human access to space. But Beyond Earth does not offer another wide-eyed technology fantasy: instead, it is grounded not only in the human capacity for invention and the appeal of adventure, but also in the bureaucratic, political, and scientific realities that present obstacles to space travel—realities that have hampered NASA's efforts ever since the Challenger disaster. In Beyond Earth, the authors offer groundbreaking research and argue persuasively that not Mars, but Titan—a moon of Saturn with a nitrogen atmosphere, a weather cycle, and an inexhaustible supply of cheap energy—offers the most realistic, and thrilling, prospect of life without support from Earth.
Author : Michael D. Lemonick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0802779026
In the mid-1990s, astronomers made history when they began to find planets orbiting stars in the Milky Way. More than eight hundred planets have been found since then, yet none of them is anything like Earth and none could support life. Now, armed with more powerful technology, planet hunters are racing to find a true twin of Earth. Science writer Michael Lemonick has unique access to these exoplaneteers, as they call themselves, and Mirror Earth unveils their passionate quest. Unlike competitors in other races, Geoff Marcy, Bill Borucki, David Charbonneau, Sara Seager, and others actually consult and cooperate with one another. But only one will be the first to find Earth's twin. Mirror Earth tells the story of their competition.
Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429948140
“Fans of hard sf will enjoy this space adventure” that follows Farside in the Grand Tour series from the six-time Hugo Award winner (Library Journal). The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth. All of the explorers understand that they are essentially on a one-way mission. The trip takes eighty years each way, so even if they are able to get back to Earth, nearly 200 years will have elapsed. They will have aged only a dozen years thanks to cryonic suspension, but their friends and family will be gone and the very society that they once knew will have changed beyond recognition. The explorers are going into exile, and they know it. They are on this mission not because they were the best available, but because they were expendable. Upon landing on the planet they discover something unexpected: New Earth is inhabited by a small group of intelligent creatures who look very much like human beings. Who are these people? Are they native to this world, or invaders from elsewhere? While they may seem inordinately friendly to the human explorers, what are their real motivations? What do they want? Moreover, the scientists begin to realize that this planet cannot possibly be natural. They face a startling and nearly unthinkable question: Could New Earth be an artifact?
Author : Samuel Lister
Publisher : AB Discovery
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
On Earth One they have a problem - a very, very low birthrate and so with their advanced technology they visit other earths in the multiverse and take their unwanted infants until later on they take unwanted teenagers. But despite their similarities, these earths are still very different but in a lot of them... they wear diapers. From the book: Floating Around In My Head (Vol 2)
Author : Peter D. Ward
Publisher : Springer
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387218483
What determines whether complex life will arise on a planet, or even any life at all? Questions such as these are investigated in this groundbreaking book. In doing so, the authors synthesize information from astronomy, biology, and paleontology, and apply it to what we know about the rise of life on Earth and to what could possibly happen elsewhere in the universe. Everyone who has been thrilled by the recent discoveries of extrasolar planets and the indications of life on Mars and the Jovian moon Europa will be fascinated by Rare Earth, and its implications for those who look to the heavens for companionship.
Author : Michael G. Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 2024-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1040185118
This engaging survey of the Space Age links science and technology with politics and popular culture, war and peace, and crises and controversies. It examines the history of spaceflight as a mirror of human thought and action across the Earth. The volume encompasses the new astronomy and sciences of the modern era, the early dreamers and pioneers after 1903, the national competitions of the First World War, the rocket states that prepared for the Second World War, the rivalries and “space race” of the Cold War between the US and USSR, as well as more recent developments including the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station, national space programs, orbital technologies, transhumanism, and military and commercial ventures in space. It also stresses the importance of geography in the geopolitics of spaceflight competition and in the nature of the planetary biosphere. Taking a chronological approach to lived human experience and threshold achievements, the chapters show how these themes have been reflected in literature, art, music, film, and our new digital worlds. This book is essential reading for students of the history of the Space Age, as well as an excellent companion to courses on twentieth‐century science and technology, the Cold War, and American history.
