Star Ark A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship
As space ventures have become more numerous, leading scientists and theorists have offered ways of building a living habitat in a hostile environment, taking an ‘ecosystems’ view of space colonization. The contributors to this volume take a radical multi-disciplinary view of the challenge of human s...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2017, 2017
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017 |
| Series: | Space Exploration
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction by Rachel Armstrong
- Overview by Andrew Tziolas
- Metaphysics of Reality in Space by Rachel Armstrong
- Seeding the Universe with Life by Michael Mautner
- Space chemistry by Martin Hanczyc
- Living soils by Rachel Armstrong
- Bacterial worlds by Simon Park
- Nature in space by Koert van Mensvoort
- The experience of space by Nelly Ben Hayoum
- Space architecture by Richard Hyams
- Extremophiles by Sarah Jane Pell.-Shrinking the human by Arne Hendriks
- Human/mechanicals hybrids by Kevin Warwick
- Space birth by Lucy McCrae, Susan Crawford-Young, and Lynne Harper
- Establishing the ecological being by Rachel Armstrong
- Ecology of Mind by Noam Chomsky
- Humanity in space by Steve Fuller
- Ecological politics by Jane Bennett
- Very large organizations by Jordan Geiger
- Architects building planets by Mark Morris