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Simon & Schuster
April 2015
On Sale: April 7, 2015
ISBN: 1476784760
EAN: 9781476784762
Kindle: B00JSRQUUA
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Non-Fiction
Award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek says humans will
live on Mars by 2034. Now he makes the case that living on
Mars is not just plausible, but inevitable. It sounds like science fiction, but Stephen Petranek
considers it fact: Within twenty years, humans will live on
Mars. We’ll need to. In this sweeping, provocative book that
mixes business, science, and human reporting, Petranek makes
the case that living on Mars is an essential back-up plan
for humanity and explains in fascinating detail just how it
will happen. The race is on. Private companies, driven by iconoclastic
entrepreneurs, such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen,
and Sir Richard Branson; Dutch reality show and space
mission Mars One; NASA; and the Chinese government are among
the many groups competing to plant the first stake on Mars
and open the door for human habitation. Why go to Mars? Life
on Mars has potential life-saving possibilities for everyone
on earth. Depleting water supplies, overwhelming climate
change, and a host of other disasters—from terrorist attacks
to meteor strikes—all loom large. We must become a
space-faring species to survive. We have the technology not
only to get humans to Mars, but to convert Mars into another
habitable planet. It will likely take 300 years to
“terraform” Mars, as the jargon goes, but we can turn it
into a veritable second Garden of Eden. And we can live
there, in specially designed habitations, within the next
twenty years. In this exciting chronicle, Petranek introduces the circus
of lively characters all engaged in a dramatic effort to be
the first to settle the Red Planet. How We’ll Live on Mars
brings firsthand reporting, interviews with key
participants, and extensive research to bear on the question
of how we can expect to see life on Mars within the next
twenty years.
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