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Off-Earth

Author : Erika Nesvold
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 2024-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262550997

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Can we do better in space than we’ve done here on Earth? We’ve pinpointed the destination, refined the technology, designed the habitat, outfitted our space residents. Are we forgetting something? A timely reminder that it’s not just rocket science, this thought-provoking book explores the all-too-human issues raised by the prospect of settling in outer space. It’s worth remembering, Erika Nesvold suggests, that in making new worlds, we don’t necessarily leave our earthly problems behind. Accordingly, her work highlights the complex ethical challenges that accompany any other-worldly venture—questions about the environment, labor rights, and medical ethics, among others. Any such venture, Nesvold contends, must be made on behalf of all humanity, with global input and collaboration. Off-Earth thus includes historical and contemporary examples from outside the dominant Western/US, abled, and privileged narrative of the space industry. Nesvold calls on experts in ethics, sociology, history, social justice, and law to launch a hopeful conversation about the potential ethical pitfalls of becoming a multi-planet species—and, ideally, to shed light on similar problems we presently face here on Earth. Space settlement is rapidly becoming ever more likely. Will it look like the utopian vision of Star Trek? Or the dark future of Star Wars? Nesvold challenges us to decide.

Out of the Earth

Author : Simon Y. Mills
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN :

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The effects of herbs on the human body are set in a lucid and modern context. Simon Mills describes traditional herbal pathology and therapeutics, and also suggests up-to-date research methods to validate herbalism so that it can take its rightful place among the medical sciences. For practising herbalist and lay reader alike, the detailed pharmacology, based on the author's own extensive research and experience, will be of crucial interest: the active constituents of.

Off-Earth Evolution: Returning Home

Author : Matthew David Evans
Publisher : Matthew Evans
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 2018-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1720017492

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Scientists from the planets Teronovaj and Pacienco return to Earth 10,000 years after their pioneering ancestors’ departure. Physically altered by the need to adapt to harsh conditions on their planets, they struggle with the prejudice and fanaticism they encounter on an Earth recovering from nuclear holocaust and an ice age. When they become divided and trapped on opposite sides of Earth, crewmembers from the two planets must band together to escape native superstition and violence from pursuing military.

Out of the Earth

Author : Daniel Hillel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 1992-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520080805

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A moving tribute to the physical and spiritual properties of nature's richestelement by one of the world's leading soil conservationists.

Off-Earth Evolution: Earth Deliverance

Author : Matthew David Evans
Publisher : Matthew Evans
Page : pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Konsorcio was just the opening salvo in a greater war. Saga and Altaj lead Terons and Pacis in a fight against the Prots, in an attempt to save the Earth. Their embattled forces become separated and are forced to learn how to survive with their new Earthian allies. Battles rage around the planet, from the jungles of Africa to the ice-covered polar regions, as clashes in the Prots’ subterranean layers prove costly. Once again, scientific ingenuity becomes humanity’s greatest weapon.

Off-Earth Evolution: The Colonization Conflict

Author : Matthew Evans
Publisher : Matthew Evans
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 18,32 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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The second book in the Off-Earth Evolution series. Saga is sent to the collaborative settlement on the planet of Konsorcio, in order to settle a rift that has broken out between settlers from Teronovaj and Pacienco. She and her crew reunite with old acquaintances and encounter unexpected hostility. While attempting to resolve problems between the two groups, they are forced to confront a deadly new enemy. Saga and Altaj muster scientific ingenuity, physical strength, and old military strategies in the fight to defend their people.

Adaptive On- and Off- Earth Environments

Author :
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Astronautics
ISBN : 3031500814

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This volume investigates the challenges and opportunities for designing, manufacturing and operating off-Earth infrastructures in order to establish adaptive human habitats. The adaptive aspects are considered with respect to the development of adequate infrastructures designed to support human activities. Given the limitations in bringing materials from Earth, utilisation of in-situ resources is crucial for establishing and maintaining these infrastructures. Adaptive on-and off-Earth Environments focuses, among other aspects, on the design, production, and operation processes required to build and maintain such off-Earth infrastructures, while heavily relying on In-Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU). Such design, production, and operation processes integrate cyber-physical approaches developed and tested on Earth. The challenge is to adapt on-Earth approaches to off-Earth applications aiming at technology advancement and ultimately transfer from on- to off-Earth research. This challenge is addressed with contributions from various disciplines ranging from power generation to architecture, construction, and materials engineering involving ISRU for manufacturing processes. All chapters, related to these disciplines, are structured with an emphasis on computing and adaptivity of on-Earth technology to off-Earth applications and vice versa to serve society at large.

Off the Face of the Earth

Author : Aljean Harmetz
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780671004651

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Eight-year-old David Greene has already run away twice since his parents got divorced. The third time started out no differently--except this time, David doesn't return. The police are anxious to charge a local homeless man with his death, but David's mother is convinced he is alive. With the help of a maverick police officer, she discovers David's trail, and she's led down a harrowing path of clues.

Out of the Earth

Author : Louis Bromfield
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781590989517

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Pulitzer prize winning author's further exploration of sustainable agriculture and natural systems.

Yellow Earth

Author : John Sayles
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1642590789

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In Yellow Earth, John Sayles introduces an epic cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing agendas and worldviews with lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit. When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks loose. Locals, oil workers, service workers, politicians, law enforcement, and get-rich-quick opportunists—along with an earnest wildlife biologist—commingle and collide as the population of the town triples overnight. Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the tribal business council of the neighboring Three Nations reservation, entertains visions of "sovereignty by the barrel" and joins forces with a fast-talking entrepreneur. From casino dealers to activists and high school kids, everyone in the region is swept up in the unsparing wave of an oil boom. Sayles’s masterful storytelling draws an arc from the earliest exploitation of this land and its people all the way to twenty-first-century privatization schemes. Through the intertwining lives of its characters, Yellow Earth lays bare how the profit motive erodes human relationships, as well as our living planet. The fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times.