Star ark : (Record no. 63139)

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008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783319310404 (paperback)
International Standard Book Number 9783319310428 (ebook)
042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE
Authentication code pcc
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 629.45
084 ## - OTHER CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 629.45
Item number ARM-S
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Armstrong, Rachel,
Dates associated with a name 1966-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Star ark :
Medium [Book] /
Remainder of title a living, self-sutaining spaceship /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Rachel Armstrong.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First edition.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxii, 492 pages :
Other physical details color illustrations ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price type code 01
Price amount 0.00
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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.
521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE
Target audience note All.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Outer space--Exploration of outer space
Topical term or geographic name entry element Space vehicles--Space flight--Planning
Topical term or geographic name entry element Space sciences--Research--Space colonies
Topical term or geographic name entry element Aerospace engineering--Astronautics
852 ## - LOCATION
Accession No. 10001000060139
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-- Pak American Commercial (Pvt.) Ltd.
Former shelving location Books
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        Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 09/09/2023   629.45 ARM-S 10001000060139 09/09/2023 09/09/2023 Books