Emigrating beyond Earth: human adaptation and space colonization

Emigrating Beyond Earth puts space colonization into the context of human evolution. Rather than focusing on the technologies and strategies needed to colonize space, the authors examine the human and societal reasons for space colonization. They make space colonization seems like a natural step by demonstrating that if will continue the human species' 4 million-year-old legacy of adaptation to difficult new environments. The authors present many examples from the history of human expansion into new environments, including two amazing tales of human colonization - the prehistoric settlement of the upper Arctic around 5,000 years ago and the colonization of the Pacific islands around 3,000 years ago - which show that space exploration is no more about rockets and robotsthat Arctic exploration was about boating! INDICE: The Extraterrestrial Adaptation - Humans in the Universe.- Stardust - Where We Come From.- Rewriting the Rules of Nature - How Humanity Survives.- The Usual Objections - Why Space Colonization is Cheap and Easy.- Extraordinary Colonization - The Arctic - Extraordinary Colonization - The Pacific.- A Choice of Catastrophes - Why We Must Do It.- Reconnaissance - A History of Space Exploration to Present.- Distant Lands Unknown - The Origin of Homo extraterrestrialis.

• ISBN: 978-1-4614-1164-2
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Fecha Publicación: 30/06/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés