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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must (1996)di Robert Zubrin
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. DNF @ 27% Robert Zubrin sure is full of himself. This entire book is just one long proposal for HIS mission, Mars Direct, and why it’s the only one that will work. He explains all of the current propositions and mission plans and you start thinking “Oh, that’s pretty neat, I can definitly see that”. But then he goes, “But those will never work, and here’s why. My mission is the only way we can do it.” And in the various charts and graphcs he uses to prove his point, he essentially compares apples and oranges to make his apples more appealing. Zubrin made the case for a cheap, efficient "Mars Direct" mission to send 4 people to Mars and keep them there for a couple years, using very available technology, in 1990. In the 2011 edition of this 1996 book, there were updates which made the case even stronger, and the case is stronger still today. The funny thing is every one of the errors in the 1996 version was in underestimating the incompetence of governments, the high pace of non-aerospace technology development, and Elon Musk -- i.e. Zubrin was too conservative. I personally would be very interested in going to Mars (one-way, even); the only counterbalance is if medical/life extension tech on earth gets dramatically better in the next 10-15 years vs. the same on Mars, so it becomes a choice of "go to Mars in 2025-2030" vs. "live for 150-200 years and go to Mars in 2050". nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Fin dall'inizio della storia umana Marte e stato un sogno allettante - materiale per leggende, divinita e misteri. Il pianeta piu simile al nostro lo si crede tuttora impossibile da raggiungere, tanto meno esplorarlo e abitarlo. Ora con l'avvento di un nuovo progetto rivoluzionario, tutto cio e cambiato. L'eminente autorita per l'esplorazione spaziale Robert Zubrin ha forgiato un nuovo audace progetto, il Mars Direct, presentato qui con illustrazioni, fotografie ed aneddoti coinvolgenti. Il libro spiega passo dopo passo come possiamo usare la tecnologia attuale per inviare uomini su Marte entro dieci anni; produrre realmente carburante ed ossigeno sulla superficie del pianeta con risorse naturali; come possiamo costruire basi ed insediamenti e come possiamo un giorno fare il "terraforming" di Marte - un processo che puo alterare l'atmosfera dei pianeti e spianare la strada alla vita sostenibile. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I'm waiving my self-imposed rule in order to give this a 5-star rating without having re-read it yet. I'm doing so because I believe the content to be so solid and important to understanding our need to go to Mars as well as how best to do it. All in all, this is a very cogent and complete exposition of Zubrin's plan. There is a much more concise version, published as [b:Mars Direct: Space Exploration, the Red Planet, and the Human Future: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin|17298280|Mars Direct Space Exploration, the Red Planet, and the Human Future A Special from Tarcher/Penguin|Robert Zubrin|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1359384684s/17298280.jpg|23933929]. But the engineering details are missing from that book, and so may not be as convincing.
Some of this book's content gets a little repetitive, but that is because Zubrin is assuming (probably correctly) that some readers will skip about in the book, so he wants to ensure that his line of reasoning and evidence always hang together. And one can always skim over the redundant text. Zubrin has put a lot of thought in the end-to-end details of going to Mars. I cannot think of any aspect of it which he has not addressed fully to the extent of our current knowledge of the Red Planet. (Which reminds me: make sure you get the revised version of this book, published in 2011.) ( )