Our cosmic future : humanity's fate in the universe /

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Author / Creator:Prantzos, Nikos.
Uniform title:Voyages dans le futur. English
Edition:English ed.
Imprint:Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Description:xii, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4281109
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ISBN:052177098X (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-282) and index.

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505 0 0 |t Foreword /  |r Hubert Reeves --  |g 1.  |t Near futures.  |t From dream to reality.  |t Magnificent desolation.  |t An ideal observatory?  |t Back to the Moon.  |t Lunar base.  |t Energy from space.  |t Industrial opportunities on the Moon.  |t Economic activities in space.  |t O'Neill's space colonies.  |t A stairway to heaven.  |t Asteroidal resources.  |t Martian chronicles.  |t Conquest of the Red Planet.  |t Colonisation of Mars.  |t Terraforming.  |t Creating new worlds.  |t The frontiers of the Solar System --  |g 2.  |t Route to the stars.  |t The interstellar ocean.  |t Steeds for space travel.  |t The Orion project and Dyson rockets.  |t Daedalus: the project.  |t Daedalus: the mission.  |t Antimatter. The most efficient fuel ...  |t ... and the most expensive!  |t Rocketless rockets.  |t Interstellar sails.  |t Ramjet, the ultimate starship.  |t Relativistic visions.  |t The hazards of relativistic travel.  |t Sleeping astronaut ... or immortal?  |t Voyaging worlds.  |t Space ark sociology.  |t Nomads of interstellar space.  |t Galactic civilisation.  |t Colonisation of the Galaxy.  |t Von Neumann machines.  |t The plurality of worlds debate.  |t Where are they?  |t Cosmic solitude? --  |g 3.  |t Star makers.  |t The Dyson sphere.  |t Dismantling a planet.  |t Impossible alchemy.  |t Ringworld.  |t Stellification of Jupiter and the Landau affair.  |t Recounting the end of the world.  |t Celestial danger.  |t The sword of Damocles.  |t An unstoppable catastrophe?  |t Can we predict the end of history?  |t The end of the Sun.  |t Chronicle of a death foretold.  |t Moving Earth.  |t Chronicle of an extended childhood --  |g 4.  |t Ultimate futures.  |t The long twilight of the gods.  |t The heat death of the Universe.  |t Decay or evolution?  |t The Universe of the Big Bang.  |t Entropy and gravity.  |t The dark side of matter.  |t Up to the final collapse.  |t Swan or phoenix?  |t The slow decay of the open Universe.  |t In the dark mists of time.  |t Protons are not forever.  |t Black holes die too.  |t Unstable future.  |t Impossible eternity? 
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