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050 00$aQB461$b.K343 2018
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100 1 $aKaku, Michio.
245 14$aThe future of humanity :$bterraforming Mars, interstellar travel, immortality, and our destiny beyond Earth /$cDr. Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physics, City University of New York.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York :$bDoubleday, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC,$c2018.
300 $axx, 339 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 309-324) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Toward a multiplanet species -- Part I: Leaving the Earth -- Preparing for liftoff -- New golden age of space travel -- Mining the heavens -- Mars or bust -- Mars: the garden planet -- Gas giants, comets, and beyond --Part II: Voyage to the stars -- Robots in space -- Building a starship -- Kepler and a universe of planets -- Part III: Life in the universe -- Immortality -- Tr
520 $a"Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility--and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change andthe depletion of finite resources, or inthe distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a specie
650 0$aAstrophysics.
650 0$aInterplanetary voyages.