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- Space to live : the search for an alternative home for humanity / by Hill, Roderick J.(Roderick Jeffrey),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Life on Earth, how unusual is it, why its future is under threat, and what might be done to ensure its survival -- Are we alone? The search for extraterrestrial life -- Scenarios for the demise of humanity -- How urgent is the imperative to search for other locations for humans to live? -- Potential locations for human settlement -- The record of space travel so far -- Options for establishing a permanent settlement in Earth's immediate environment -- Options for settlement beyond the Earth-moon setting but within the solar system -- Options for settlement outside our solar system -- The journey off Earth -- The tyranny of distance and time -- Physical, social, and psychological challenges of space travel -- Current spacecraft options for human transportation -- Options for spacecraft propulsion technology -- What next? -- A summary of the challenges for a human settlement off Earth -- Humans or machines? -- Summary and conclusions."Examines the accelerating search for the existence of life forms beyond Earth, the threats to human life on Earth in the near or distant future due to one or more global catastrophes, and the growing push towards the establishment of a human presence on the Moon and Mars, and perhaps elsewhere in or beyond the Solar System"--- Subjects: Extraterrestrial anthropology.; Space colonies.; Interplanetary voyages.;
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