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Asteroids - How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space (Hardcover)
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Asteroids - How Love, Fear, and Greed Will Determine Our Future in Space (Hardcover)
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A unique, wide-ranging examination of asteroid exploration and our
future in space Human travel into space is an enormously expensive
and unforgiving endeavor. So why go? In this accessible and
authoritative book, astrophysicist Martin Elvis argues that the
answer is asteroid exploration, for the strong motives of love,
fear, and greed. Elvis's personal motivation is one of scientific
love-asteroid investigations may teach us about the composition of
the solar system and the origins of life. A more compelling reason
may be fear-of a dinosaur killer-sized asteroid hitting our planet.
Finally, Elvis maintains, we should consider greed: asteroids
likely hold vast riches, such as large platinum deposits, and
mining them could provide both a new industry and a funding source
for bolder space exploration. Elvis explains how each motive can be
satisfied, and how they help one another. From the origins of life
to "space billiards" and space sports, Elvis looks at how asteroids
may be used in the not-so-distant future.
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