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A City On Mars
''A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?'' is a 2023 popular science book by Kelly Weinersmith, Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. It covers the current state of knowledge of space colonization, space settlement given changes in the economics of space travel in the 2010s and 2020s, with a particular focus on challenges that the authors consider unresolved or underestimated. The book is illustrated with Zach Weinersmith's artwork; he is known as the creator of the webcomic ''Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal''. The book discusses challenges facing long-term human existence in space and encourages further research into solving these issues before long-term space settlement is attempted, as the technical barriers to increased space travel appear to be weakening due to advances from Billionaire space race, commercial space flight providers. Some of the challenges covered in the book include sex in space; pregnancy and childrearing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Weinersmith
Kelly Weinersmith (née Smith) is an American biologist, writer, and podcaster. She is a member of the faculty at Rice University in the Department of BioSciences, and an alumni collaborator with the Parasite Ecology Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is co-author, with her husband Zach Weinersmith, of popular science books ''Soonish'' (2017) and ''A City on Mars'' (2023). Research A parasitologist, Weinersmith is the co-discoverer of ''Euderus set'', commonly known as the Cryptkeeper Wasp. Books * ''Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything'' (2017) is a work co-authored with her husband Zach Weinersmith looking at upcoming technologies that could change the future. The book made #7 in Science on ''The New York Times'' bestsellers in the science book category. *''A City on Mars, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?'' (2023) is a popular science book on s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
