All that we would need is a bigger, better Star Trek-like boat, we are told. Once humans are successful in building colonies across the solar system, Kaku offers them a manual to go interstellar. Then you could excavate the ice, melt it, and purify it for drinking water, or extract oxygen for breathing and hydrogen for heating and rocket fuel." For protection against radiation and dust storms, his advice is simple, again: Go underground! "Or it could be advantageous to set up the first Martian base in a gigantic lava tube near a volcano (there would be many on Mars)."Īlso read: Shashi Tharoors new book begins with the argument that Hinduism is a civilisation, not a dogma Since Mars is frozen solid, all you would have to do is dig a few feet until you hit the permafrost. Dwelling on taking up residence on Mars, he writes: "One strategy for prospering on the planet is to take advantage of what is available, such as ice. What excels most is his simple but engaging style of writing. The first part of the book, 'Leaving the Earth', tells the history of rocketry, how the stars and planets around them formed, and also ways to reach and colonise not just Mars but also other habitable planets. This means that the odds are already stacked heavily against us," the physicist says, reminding us how this planet has already sustained five major extinction cycles in which up to 90 per cent of all life-forms vanished from the Earth.
"If we scan all the life-forms that have ever existed on the Earth, we find that 99.9 per cent of them eventually became extinct. A breathtaking voyage through what is almost certainly the next major period in the history of humanity.Kaku backs his argument by saying that extinction has been the norm on this planet. Kaku’s writings have garnered a reputation for combining hard science with clever speculation, and his latest book continues that winning trend. Drawing on the work of a multitude of experts-Murray Gell-Mann, Buzz Aldrin, Gregory Benford, Fritjof Capra, and Jared Diamond, to mention just a small handful-Kaku lays out a detailed and entirely plausible plan for moving out into the solar system and-even beyond-into the stars.
In this deeply fascinating and energetically written book, Kaku explores how, exactly, we might go about colonizing other planets. Leaving Earth, the author tells us, may no longer be optional, not if we want to survive as a species. Colonization of other worlds used to be the domain of science fiction, but, at an ever-increasing pace, it’s becoming science fact. Kaku, the noted theoretical physicist and popular-science writer ( The Future of the Mind, 2014), takes us on an adventure of the imagination.
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