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The future of humanity : terraforming Mars, interstellar travel, immortality, and our destiny beyond Earth  Cover Image Large Print Book Large Print Book

The future of humanity : terraforming Mars, interstellar travel, immortality, and our destiny beyond Earth / Dr. Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physics, City University of New York.

Kaku, Michio, (author.).

Summary:

Traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to outline a remarkable vision of humanity's future in space, from colonizing Mars to traveling to distant galaxies.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0525589538
  • ISBN: 9780525589532
  • Physical Description: xxiv, 563 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First large print paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Random House Large Print, [2018]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-536) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Toward a multiplanet species -- Preparing for liftoff -- New golden age of space travel -- Mining the heavens -- Mars or bust -- Mars: the garden planet -- Gas giants, comets, and beyond -- Robots in space -- Building a starship -- Kepler and a universe of planets -- Immortality -- Transhumanism and technology -- Search for extraterrestrial life -- Advanced civilizations -- Leaving the universe.
Subject: Astrophysics.
Interplanetary voyages.
Genre: Large print books.

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