Star Ark A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Armstrong, Rachel (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Σειρά: Springer Praxis Books
• Θέματα: Popular works.; Design.; Astronomy.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Design, general.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.