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Название: Lunacy: Ten False Promises of the New Space AgeАвтор: Ben Bramble
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год: 2026
Страниц: 201
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.1 MB
Why we shouldn’t colonize Mars or the Moon, or even vacation there. If certain business titans, corporations, and governments have their way, humans will someday be living, working, and vacationing in space. This is the much-vaunted New Space Age, and in Lunacy, philosopher Ben Bramble explains why it is a giant mistake. Bramble systematically refutes each of the ten most influential reasons given for this new generation of space exploration (and habitation), from the idea of Mars as a backup plan in case Earth meets an untimely end to the charms of friendship with extraterrestrials. Doing so, he reflects on deeper issues, exploring such questions as what the point of the human story is and what a good future for humanity would truly involve. Why is Mars specifically the target of these efforts? Why not somewhere closer to home, like the Moon? Mars’s distance from Earth is actually part of its appeal. The Moon is so close to Earth that many of the threats we face here on Earth could threaten us on the Moon as well—say, a killer comet that dramatically altered Earth’s gravitational balance or ejected significant debris into space, or a powerful gamma-ray burst. Mars, by contrast, is so far away that a colony there might have a greater chance of surviving such things.
