Journey To Alpha Centauri

Author : Michael D. O'Brien
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681496146

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Voyage to Alpha Centauri by Michael D. O'Brien Pdf

Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a "flying city", is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has played a major role in designing the ship. Hoyos has signed on as a passenger because he desires to escape the seemingly benign totalitarian government that controls everything on his home planet. He is a skeptical and quirky misanthropic humanist with old tragedies, loves, and hatreds that are secreted in his memory. The surprises that await him on the voyage-and its destination-will shatter all of his assumptions and point him to a true new horizon. Science fiction and fantasy literature are genres that have become dominant forces in contemporary worldwide culture. Our fascination with the near-angelic powers of new technology, its benefits and dangers, its potential for obsession and catastrophe, raises vital questions that this work explores about human nature and the cosmos, about man's image of himself and where he is going-and why he seeks to go there.

Author : John W. Macvey
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Extraterrestrial anthropology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038429689

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Journey to Alpha Centauri by John W. Macvey Pdf

Author : Michael Ely
Publisher : Pocket Books/Star Trek
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Space colonies
ISBN : 0671040774

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Centauri Dawn by Michael Ely Pdf

After a ship malfunction leads to the death of the captain, members of the starship Unity break into factions, hindering plans for building peaceful human civilization on their new planet.

Author : Fritz Reichert
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595423019

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Dangerous Voyage to Alpha Centauri by Fritz Reichert Pdf

In the year 2044, scientists have revealed new advances to extend the longevity of human life. Within the next years the world's population explodes by more than one billion people each year. Though millions live already deep under the moon's surface, it becomes necessary to search for planets outside our solar system. Tim Turner, a teacher and scientist, tackles this mission by traveling to the sun's next star, Alpha Centauri. The isolation of his task drives him to the edge of lunacy, but what he discovers could prevent the human race from destroying itself. When Turner returns to Earth thirty-six years later, he comes back to an unthinkable situation. What has happened during his absence-and what has become of the two women he loves most? A tantalizing mix of science fiction and love story, Dangerous Voyage to Alpha Centauri poses a fascinating question: Could this plot become a reality for the Earth and its residents in the not-so-distant future?

Author : A. Ahad
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1424138337

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First Ark to Alpha Centauri 2 by A. Ahad Pdf

Itas been two years since the Centauri Princess was plagued by a series of attacks from mysterious, winged wolf-like creatures arriving from the interstellar night. Having eliminated the threat, the lonely ark is again cruising on her silent voyage towards a near-infinitely far destination. In the midst of this sereneness, what could possibly go wrong? In the immense ocean of darkness beyond our solar system, a mining expedition is dispatched to an ice world found drifting in the Oort cloud to replenish the ark shipas uranium reserves. There, the expedition encounters mysterious revelations inside a acity of lights.a They discover something seductively beautiful yet viciously deadly. At the same time, the secret offers a solution that proves priceless to the multi-generational colony crew, eager to reach their unreachable destination in a single generation. In the end, a deadly struggle ensues amongst the arkas own crew in their quest for immortalitya]

Author : Paul Gilster
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475738940

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Centauri Dreams by Paul Gilster Pdf

I wrote this book because I wanted to learn more about interstel lar flight. Not the Star Trek notion of tearing around the Galaxy in a huge spaceship-that was obviously beyond existing tech nology-but a more realistic mission. In 1989 I had videotaped Voyager 2's encounter with Neptune and watched the drama of robotic exploration over and over again. I started to wonder whether we could do something similar with Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun. Everyone seemed to agree that manned flight to the stars was out of the question, if not permanently then for the indefinitely foreseeable future. But surely we could do something with robotics. And if we could figure out a theoretical way to do it, how far were we from the actual technology that would make it happen? In other words, what was the state of our interstellar technology today, those concepts and systems that might translate into a Voyager to the stars? Finding answers meant talking to people inside and outside of NASA. I was surprised to learn that there is a large literature of interstellar flight. Nobody knows for sure how to propel a space craft fast enough to make the interstellar crossing within a time scale that would fit the conventional idea of a mission, but there are candidate systems that are under active investigation. Some of this effort begins with small systems that we'll use near the Earth and later hope to extend to deep space missions.

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407042749

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Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett Pdf

IF NOT YOU, WHO ELSE? As the mighty alien fleet from the latest computer game thunders across the screen, Johnny prepares to blow them into the usual million pieces. And they send him a message: We surrender. They're not supposed to do that! They're supposed to die. And computer joysticks don't have 'Don't Fire' buttons . . . But it's only a game, isn't it. Isn't it? The first book in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy.

Author : KEN CROSWELL, PH. D.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683291867

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JOURNEY TO ALPHA CENTAURI by KEN CROSWELL, PH. D. Pdf

Author : Kumar L
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1096360373

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Earth to Centauri by Kumar L Pdf

A 140-year-old secret throws three planets into chaos! Tech for the geek. Thrills for the action seeker. Mysteries for the detective. Science for the uninitiated. The year is 2095. Voyager 1 launched in 1977 with a golden record - someone has found it and is sending a signal back to Earth. With a newly constructed faster-than-light spaceship named Antariksh, and a crew which includes novices like Lt. Manisha, as well as seasoned professionals, like Commander Ryan, Captain Anara reaches the source of the signal at the nearest star to Earth - Proxima Centauri. Before she can meet with the aliens, Anara must clear obstacles on her own ship, including a recalcitrant Artificial Intelligence and inexplicable radiation, which threatens the safety of the mission. The implications of what they find on planet Proxima B will resonate far beyond this first journey, exposing Earth to dangers on an unimaginable scale. And then Captain Anara finds out its creators buried a secret aboard Voyager 1.

Author : Michael Ely
Publisher : Pocket Books/Star Trek
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computer games
ISBN : 0671040790

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Twilight of the Mind by Michael Ely Pdf

A century has passed since events of "Alpha Centauri #2: Dragon Sun." Civilization is braced for final reckoning. Science and faith collide as the fanatical Believers of Sister Miriam vie with the technological might of Prokhor Zakharov in a merciless war of destruction. Five besieged factions join the battle against Miriam's zealots as the planet Chiron prepares itself for a new era.

Author : Alastair Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539132293

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Alpha Centauri by Alastair Mayer Pdf

A robot probe using newly developed Alcubierre warp drive technology has returned from the Alpha Centauri system, revealing the existence of two Earthlike planets. A multinational expedition is launched to land on and explore these worlds, but political intrigue and natural disasters threaten the mission . . . and what they find may threaten Earth itself.

Author : David D. Nolte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780192528506

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Galileo Unbound by David D. Nolte Pdf

Galileo Unbound traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems. Galileo published the first modern law of motion, the Law of Fall, that was ideal and simple, laying the foundation upon which Newton built the first theory of dynamics. Early in the twentieth century, geometry became the cause of motion rather than the result when Einstein envisioned the fabric of space-time warped by mass and energy, forcing light rays to bend past the Sun. Possibly more radical was Feynman's dilemma of quantum particles taking all paths at once — setting the stage for the modern fields of quantum field theory and quantum computing. Yet as concepts of motion have evolved, one thing has remained constant, the need to track ever more complex changes and to capture their essence, to find patterns in the chaos as we try to predict and control our world.

Author : Elizabeth Klarer
Publisher : Light Technology Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781622335794

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Beyond the Light Barrier by Elizabeth Klarer Pdf

Beyond the Light Barrier is the autobiographical story of Elizabeth Klarer, a South African woman and Akon, an astrophysicist from Meton, a planet of Proxima Centuri that, at a distance of about 4.3 light years, is our nearest stellar neighbor. Elizabeth was taken in his spaceship to Meton, where she lived with him and his family for four months and where she bore his child. Her life on Meton is fascinatingly described. Akon brought Elizabeth back to Earth after the birth of their son, and continued to visit her thereafter. Akon explained how his spaceship's light-propulsion technology operated, and how it allowed him and his people to travel across vast interstellar distances. This technology is explained in detail in the book. Elizabeth was given a standing ovation at the 11th International Congress of UFO Research Groups at Weisbaden in 1975, and her speech as guest of honor was applauded by scientists of twenty-two nations. Light Technology Publishing is proud to bring you the long-awaited American edition in both hard copy and electronic format of Beyond the Light Barrier, which was first published in English in 1980

Author : Hiyashi Jain
Publisher : BooksClub
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Into the Stars by Hiyashi Jain Pdf

The Author of this book is Hiyashi Jain

Author : John H. Mauldin
Publisher : Univelt
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000227780

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Prospects for Interstellar Travel by John H. Mauldin Pdf

A detailed introduction is presented to the problems of interstellar space travel. The general topics discussed include: basics of travel in space, advanced propulsion methods; relativity and interstellar travel; relativistic drives and problems; starships as systems; missions; astrogation, observation, and communication; technological requirements and hazards; biological requirements; personal, social, and political considerations; interstellar life and civilizations; long-term prospects.