August 9, 2024 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Throwing this out for discussion. Should we terraform other planets? We protect virgin environments on this planet, why not other/
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http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
Col Beausabre: It is for the people that live on those worlds, in the future, to decide. I guarantee that for at least the first 500 years of their settlement they will have zero problem with terraforming, aggressively. They will be pioneers whose survival — more important the survival of their children — depends on it.
Keep in mind that Earth-based governments will have NO SAY in what happens on other planets. Robert is exactly right, the people who are there will make these decisions, not some far away government agency or a crack-pot group of “planet-huggers”!
Col Beausabre asked: “Throwing this out for discussion. Should we terraform other planets? We protect virgin environments on this planet, why not other”
Why would we want to protect virgin Mars environments? We protect some and certain Earthen environments for nature’s animals or as nice places to visit, but we don’t protect all environments and use many for our own purposes. We are able to protect environments because we are prosperous enough to live well without using them for our productivity. Early martians will have too many difficulties to overcome to worry much about environmental protections.
However, perhaps we should also consider O’Neill’s hypothesis that we will expand into space not so much on planetary surfaces but in the kinds of orbital colonies that he had imagined. Getting off planets takes a lot of energy and resources. Travel between space-borne colonies takes less of each. Planetary environments may not be in as much peril as we think.