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Star Ark - A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
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Star Ark - A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Space Exploration
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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 space
colonization through the ongoing project Persephone. This book
fundamentally challenges prevalent ideas about sustainability and
proposes a new approach to resource austerity and conservation and
providing truly sustainable approaches that are life-promoting.
Readers will learn the details of the plans for Persephone - a real
project that is part of the company Icarus Interstellar's plans for
the design and engineering of a living interior on a worldship to
be constructed in Earth's orbit within 100 years. Although the
timeframe itself is only an estimate, since it is contingent on
many significant developments, including funding and technological
advances, the industry consensus is that within 100 years we will
see manned space exploration beyond our solar system. This notion
is shared by organizations such as the Initiative for Interstellar
Studies and the DARPA-funded 100-year starship project. This book
specifically develops the principles for the construction of a
living habitat within a worldship - a multi-generational starship
that contains its own world that supports colonists as it travels
across great distances between stars at a speed much slower than
light. Far from being a sterile industrial setup, such as the ISS,
or even being a bucolic suburbia as proposed by Gerard O'Neill in
the 1970s, this worldship will provide the pre-conditions for
sustaining life beyond Earth's environment, which may also lead to
the evolution of non-terrestrial ecologies. Drawing on the
principles of ecopoiesis and insights offered by the Biosphere 2
experiment that demonstrated what we have to learn about ecosystem
construction, this book proposes first designing the soils of such
a space. It should then be possible to set up the conditions that a
first generation of colonists may experience in leaving our solar
system to find new worlds to settle - perhaps in spreading life
throughout the universe. Although the book takes a unique view of
ecology and sustainability within the setting of a traveling
starship it is equally concerned with the human experience on
artificial worlds. Chapters come from a range of multi disciplinary
thinkers who shed light on the brave new future ahead from
different angles.
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