Dark Skies provides the first comprehensive and balanced assessment of the space enterprise, past, present and future. It demolishes widely-held optimistic assumptions about the desirability of many major space activities, actual and prospective. Most consequentially, the hiding-in-plain-sight use of outer space as a corridor for long-range bombardment has increased the probability of catastrophic nuclear war. Contrary to the widespread claim that sustainable colonies on other celestial bodies are necessary for human survival from large-scale disasters on Earth, Dark Skies shows that…mehr
Dark Skies provides the first comprehensive and balanced assessment of the space enterprise, past, present and future. It demolishes widely-held optimistic assumptions about the desirability of many major space activities, actual and prospective. Most consequentially, the hiding-in-plain-sight use of outer space as a corridor for long-range bombardment has increased the probability of catastrophic nuclear war. Contrary to the widespread claim that sustainable colonies on other celestial bodies are necessary for human survival from large-scale disasters on Earth, Dark Skies shows that colonization itself poses many severe threats and should be avoided. Instead an Earth-oriented space program should be pursued.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Daniel Deudney is a professor of political science and international relations at Johns Hopkins University. He has written extensively on international theory, political theory and global issues: nuclear, space, environment and energy. His book Bounding Power: Republican Security from the Polis to the Global Village received the 'Book of the Decade' award from the International Studies Association.
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* Prologue: MACHINE CIVILIZATION and THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE EARTH * Chapter 1. THE PROMISE OF SPACE REVISITED * Chapter 2. TOWARD AN ASSESSMENT * PART ONE: GEOGRAPHIC and TECHNOLOGICAL HORIZONS * Chapter 3. NEW HEAVENS, NEW EARTH * Chapter 4. TECHNOLOGICAL IMAGINARIES, FEASIBILITIES, SYNDROMES and CATASTROPHES * PART TWO: SPACE EXPANSIONISM and CRITICS * Chapter 5. ABSOLUTE WEAPONS, LIGHTNING WARS and ULTIMATE POSITIONS * Chapter 6. LIMITLESS FRONTIERS, SPACESHIP EARTHS and HIGHER HUMANITIES * Chapter 7. SUPERPOWER RESTRAINTS, PLANETARY SECURITY and EARTH IDENTITY * PART THREE: ASSESSMENT * Chapter 8. GEOGRAPHY, GEOPOLITICS AND GEO-HISTORY * Chapter 9. EARTH SPACE, PLANETARY GEOPOLITICS and WORLD GOVERNMENTS * Chapter 10. SOLAR SPACE, ISLAND EARTH and THE ENDS OF HUMANITY * Conclusion: SPACE FOR EARTH
* Prologue: MACHINE CIVILIZATION and THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE EARTH * Chapter 1. THE PROMISE OF SPACE REVISITED * Chapter 2. TOWARD AN ASSESSMENT * PART ONE: GEOGRAPHIC and TECHNOLOGICAL HORIZONS * Chapter 3. NEW HEAVENS, NEW EARTH * Chapter 4. TECHNOLOGICAL IMAGINARIES, FEASIBILITIES, SYNDROMES and CATASTROPHES * PART TWO: SPACE EXPANSIONISM and CRITICS * Chapter 5. ABSOLUTE WEAPONS, LIGHTNING WARS and ULTIMATE POSITIONS * Chapter 6. LIMITLESS FRONTIERS, SPACESHIP EARTHS and HIGHER HUMANITIES * Chapter 7. SUPERPOWER RESTRAINTS, PLANETARY SECURITY and EARTH IDENTITY * PART THREE: ASSESSMENT * Chapter 8. GEOGRAPHY, GEOPOLITICS AND GEO-HISTORY * Chapter 9. EARTH SPACE, PLANETARY GEOPOLITICS and WORLD GOVERNMENTS * Chapter 10. SOLAR SPACE, ISLAND EARTH and THE ENDS OF HUMANITY * Conclusion: SPACE FOR EARTH
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