Dead Mars, Dying Earth

by Brandenburg, John E. Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9781580910668
• ISBN10: 1580910661
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Random House Inc

Summary

Remarkable true story of scientific discoveries that have consequences for the entire human race, present and future. This book calls for us to take immediate responsibility for the world in which we live. DLC: Climatic changes.

Author Biography

Dr. John Brandenburg is a physicist, rocket scientist, and Mars expert. He is one of the pioneers in Mars anomaly research and, since 1994, has been the principal investigator on the Microwave Electro-Thermal (MET) rocket thruster project for Research Support Instruments (RSI) in collaboration with the Center for Space Power at Texas AandM. He was a member of the NASA Technical Advisory Committee of Technology and Commercialization and served on its former Space Transportation Subcommittee. Monica Rix Paxson is a writer and scientific editor who is the founder of three computer teaching and publishing businesses.

Table of Contents

Plate Illustrations	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Foreword	xvii
John E. Brandenburg
Foreword	xx
Monica Rix Paxson
Introduction	xxi
Between Fire and Ice	1	(24)
The Airless Sphere	25	(23)
A Whole New Universe	48	(21)
From Dust to Dust	69	(20)
Bolder and Boulder	89	(25)
Virtual Unreality	114	(20)
Life Rules	134	(19)
The Vortex	153	(21)
Lost and Gone Forever	174	(28)
Dead Mars	202	(20)
Dying Earth	222	(21)
The Enterprise	243	(26)
Epilogue: Tea With Sophia on the Great Sand Sea	269	(4)
Appendix A: OID as a Global Concern	273	(2)
Appendix B: Peak Flow Meter Test	275	(3)
Notes	278	(18)
Glossary of Acronyms	296	(1)
Recommended Reading and Resources	297	(3)
Bibliography	300	(5)
Index	305