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How We'll Live On Mars (Hardcover)
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How We'll Live On Mars (Hardcover)
Series: TED
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Part of the TED series: How We'll Live on Mars It sounds like
science fiction, but award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek
considers it fact: within 20 years, humans will live on Mars. We'll
need to. In this sweeping, provocative book that mixes business,
science and human reporting, Petranek makes the case that living on
Mars is an essential back-up plan for humanity, and explains in
fascinating detail just how it will happen. It's clear that the
race is on. Private companies (driven by iconoclastic entrepreneurs
like Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson); Dutch reality show/space
mission Mars One; NASA and the Chinese government are among the
many groups competing to plant the first stake on Mars and open the
door for human habitation. For Elon Musk, it's the "ultimate
awesome thing." For other entrepreneurs, it's about competition and
opportunity. For NASA, the Chinese government and the leagues of
other private companies and foreign nationals racing to get to
Mars, there are more urgent reasons as well: life on Mars has
potential life-saving possibilities for us on earth. Depleting
water supplies, overwhelming climate change and a host of other
disasters - from terrorist attacks to meteor strikes - all loom
large. We must become a space-faring species to survive. In this
close-up narrative chronicle, Petranek introduces the circus of
lively characters all engaged in a big-money, big-drama effort to
expand the limits of human knowledge - and life - by being the
first to settle on the Red Planet.How We'll Live on Marsbrings
first-hand reporting, interviews with key players and extensive
research to bear on the question of how we can best, and most
plausibly, expect to see life on Mars - within the next 20 years.
Petranek can also be seen discussing his fascinating ideas in his
TEDTalk 10 Ways The World Could End.
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