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Autore |
Launius Roger D |
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Titolo |
Robots in space : technology, evolution, and interplanetary travel / / Roger D. Launius and Howard E. McCurdy |
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Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Collana |
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New series in NASA history |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-301) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : a false dichotomy -- The human/robot debate -- Human spaceflight as utopia -- Promoting the human dimension -- Robotic spaceflight in popular culture -- The new space race -- Interstellar flight and the human future in space -- Homo sapiens, transhumanism, and the postbiological universe -- An alternative paradigm? -- Appendix : Inadequate words. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Rather than asking us to suspend disbelief, Robots in Space demands that we accept facts as they evolve. |
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