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1 online resource (1 audio file (20hr., 40 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Tom Parks. |
| Summary |
Would-be asteroid collision diverters, space solar energy collectors, asteroid miners, and space geo-engineers insistently promote their Earth-changing mega-projects. Given our many looming planetary catastrophes (from extreme climate change to runaway artificial superintelligence), looking beyond the earth for solutions might seem like a sound strategy for humanity. And indeed, bolstered by a global network of fervent space advocates-and seemingly rendered plausible, even inevitable, by oceans of science fiction and the wizardly of modern cinema-space beckons as a fully hopeful path for human survival and flourishing, a positive future in increasingly dark times. But despite even basic questions of feasibility, will these many space ventures really have desirable effects, as their advocates insist? In the first book to critically assess the major consequences of space activities from their origins in the 1940s to the present and beyond, Daniel Deudney argues in Dark Skies that the major result of the "Space Age" has been to increase the likelihood of global nuclear war, a fact conveniently obscured by the failure of recognize that nuclear-armed ballistic missiles are inherently space weapons. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Space warfare.
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Outer space -- Strategic aspects.
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Outer space -- Exploration.
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Outer space -- Civilian use -- Philosophical aspects.
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Geopolitics.
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| Added Author |
Parks, Tom.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781705266458 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1705266452 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13559971 |
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