LEADER 03361nam 22006494a 450 001 9910784759303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-13400-7 010 $a9786611134006 010 $a0-387-68129-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-0-387-68129-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000402546 035 $a(EBL)336655 035 $a(OCoLC)260242102 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000235218 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11200024 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000235218 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10243173 035 $a(PQKB)10962711 035 $a(DE-He213)978-0-387-68129-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC336655 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL336655 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10217554 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL113400 035 $a(PPN)123733146 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000402546 100 $a20070807d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRejuvenating the sun and avoiding other global catastrophes$b[electronic resource] /$fMartin Beech 205 $a1st ed. 2008. 210 $aNew York $cSpringer$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (233 pages) 225 1 $aAstronomers' universe 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-387-68128-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA Universal Problem -- It?s a Matter of Time -- The Sun, Inside and Out -- The Price of Doing Nothing -- Rejuvenating the Sun -- Stars Transformed -- Between Now and Then. 330 $aOur Sun is aging. Like us, it will someday die, and the light that warms and illuminates our planet will go out. All life on Earth will perish with it?unless we do something to stop it. Is that possible? Martin Beech thinks it is, but we must begin to plan and create the technologies that will save us NOW! Of course, we do not expect the Sun?s demise to happen anytime soon. The Sun is only about halfway through its expected lifetime. We are talking about an event that will not take place for billions of years. But it may take that long to engineer (actually, asteroengineer) our way out of the crisis. And in the meantime, we can use the newly developed knowledge and technologies to protect us from more immediate threats, such as asteroid and comet hits, global warming, and mass extinctions. For us to keep the Sun shining, we must first change our attitudes. We must put profit and short-term thinking aside. And we must come together to share the risks and costs of the necessary endeavors. Martin Beech will lay out for you, in startling clear and compelling fashion, some basic star science, what the issues are, and how you can join in this massive undertaking to prevent global disaster and keep us in the Sun?s life-giving light for the foreseeable future. 410 0$aAstronomers' universe. 606 $aStars$xEvolution 607 $aSun$xEvolution 607 $aSolar system 615 0$aStars$xEvolution. 676 $a363.7 676 $a523.2 700 $aBeech$b Martin$f1959-$0792222 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784759303321 996 $aRejuvenating the sun and avoiding other global catastrophes$93781770 997 $aUNINA