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The Monster ‘Within’: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation
ABSTRACT This article challenges prevailing approaches to urban sustainability by reconceptualizing capitalist urbanization as a planetary process of geometabolic escalation. Hegemonic visions of sustainable cities render invisible the non‐city sociometabolic preconditions and consequences of urban life under capitalism.
Neil Brenner, Swarnabh Ghosh
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Artificial Greenhouse Gases as Exoplanet Technosignatures
Atmospheric pollutants such as chlorofluorocarbons and NO _2 have been proposed as potential remotely detectable atmospheric technosignature gases. Here we investigate the potential for artificial greenhouse gases including CF _4 , C _2 F _6 , C _3 F _8 ,
Edward W. Schwieterman +8 more
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Terraforming Mars begins with altering the physical and chemical composition of Mars to allow other organisms to survive. Increasing the temperature, the availability of liquid water, higher atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen concentrations, and large-scale physical changes are all essential to terraforming Mars. Extremophilic microorganisms that are able
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Restart Solar: How NYC Can Renew Its Solar Program To Benefit Workers & Community [PDF]
New York City intends to install 100 MW of solar on the rooftops of public buildings by 2025. Over the next nine years, this upgrading of public infrastructure could provide significant benefits for New Yorkers, and not just in terms of reducing ...
Alex Gleason +6 more
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Chris Pak’s chapter examines worlds beyond our own. Focusing on Arthur C. Clarke’s novel The Sands of Mars, Frederick Turner’s Genesis: An Epic Poem, and Kim Stanley Robinsons Mars trilogy, Pak argues that representations of animals, plants, and bacteria are fundamental to how terraforming narratives conceive of cities as centers for the technological ...
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Nature's Way of Making Audacious Space Projects Viable [PDF]
Building a starship within the next 100 years is an audacious goal. To be successful, we need sustained funding that may be difficult to maintain in the face of economic challenges that are poised to arise during these next 100 years.
Metzger, Philip T.
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Unleashing Gen Y: Marketing Mars to Millennials [PDF]
Space advocates need to engage Generation Y (born 1977-1999).This outreach is necessary to recruit the next generation of scientists and engineers to explore Mars.
Hidalgo, Loretta +2 more
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Osídlení Marsu je pro lidstvo existenčně důležitý úkol, a ve stejné míře důležitý i ve smyslu poznání, je prvím krokem člověka mimo náš planetární systém. Celá problematika osídlení Marsu se skládá z mnoha problémů již vyřešených, řešitelných a zatím neznámých.
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A Modular Framework for Data Processing at the Edge: Design and Implementation. [PDF]
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