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Interviews | November 3, 2009

Sheila A.: IMG On Storytelling: The Powells.com Interview with Donald Miller

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donaldmillerDonald Miller is a Christian writer, but the question that Miller asks with his latest memoir, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, is applicable to... Continue »
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    A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

    Donald Miller

Rejuvenating the Sun and Avoiding Other Global Catastrophes (Astronomers' Universe)

by Martin Beech

Rejuvenating the Sun and Avoiding Other Global Catastrophes (Astronomers' Universe) Cover

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This book investigates the idea that the distant future evolution of our Sun might be ???controlled??? (literally, asteroengineered) so that it maintains its present-day energy output rather than becoming a highly luminous and bloated red giant star ??? a process that, if allowed to develop, will destroy all life on Earth. The text outlines how asteroengineering might work in principle and it describes what the future solar system could look like. It also addresses the idea of asteroengineering as a galaxy-wide imperative, explaining why the Earth has never been visited by extraterrestrial travellers in the past.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780387681283
Author:
Beech, Martin
Publisher:
Springer
Subject:
Astrophysics & Space Science
Subject:
Nuclear Physics
Subject:
Astronomy - General
Subject:
Astronomy - Solar System
Subject:
Evolution
Subject:
Solar system
Subject:
Stars -- Evolution.
Series:
Astronomers' Universe
Publication Date:
December 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
225
Dimensions:
9.13x6.61x.45 in. .92 lbs.
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