The Dimming of Starlight
The Philosophy of Space Exploration
Going changes the questions. Space exploration, Munévar argues, puts us in situations unusual enough to force new ideas about nature — and that, not what the missions bring home, is what makes it worth doing.
His flagship case is Venus. Studying its atmosphere is what led to recognising the destruction of Earth’s ozone layer, a discovery he argues may save hundreds of millions of lives in the centuries ahead. The book runs from the philosophy of exploration through cosmology and space biology to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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