Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies, 2020 Terraforming, or planetary engineering, is a speculative domain of activity entertaining colonial solutions to extreme disaster and systemic crises in the age of spatial exploration.
Vincent Bruyere
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The role of extremophile microbiomes in terraforming Mars [PDF]
Communications BiologyTerraforming Mars toward sustainable life-supporting ecosystems poses unprecedented challenges. Extremophilic microbes, which thrive in Earth’s most extreme environments, offer promising biological strategies for initial Mars colonization providing tools
Claudia Coleine +3 more
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Intergenerational justice, the impending sixth mass extinction, reproduction and advanced biotechnologies, and humanity’s future [PDF]
Cambridge Prisms: ExtinctionIntergenerational justice is the core principle supporting the legacy of benefit toward future generations, including the perpetuation of species and their genetic diversity, as a key component of biospheric sustainability.
Robert Kenneth Browne
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Eco-Inspired terraform networks emerge from material self-organization [PDF]
Scientific ReportsIn natural ecosystems, large-scale structure and function arise from the spatial coordination of local habitat shaped by environmental pressures. Replicating such multiscale organization in synthetic systems—where emergent form and function are governed ...
Matteo Convertino +2 more
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A Prototype Exercise–Empowerment Mobile Video Game for Children With Cancer, and Its Usability Assessment: Developing Digital Empowerment Interventions for Pediatric Diseases [PDF]
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2018 BackgroundMedical advances continue to improve morbidity and mortality of serious pediatric diseases, including cancer, driving research addressing diminished physical and psychological quality of life in children with these chronic conditions ...
Carol S. Bruggers +15 more
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Analysis of terraforming on mars using nuclear power for the beginning of space colonization [PDF]
Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection, 2022 As a historic challenge for humans, Martian colonization has been initiated by nuclear energy. A moving nuclear power plant could be imaginable known as a nuclear reactor rover.
Woo Tae Ho +2 more
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International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 2022 Chinese terraforming projects in the South China Sea have been condemned as geopolitically and ecologically destabilising. Following years of escalating construction and tourism initiatives, China pivoted in January 2019 by announcing ecosystem ...
Laurence Bashford, Jonathan Galka
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Using Spatial Data Science in Energy-Related Modeling of Terraforming the Martian Atmosphere
Energies, 2022 This paper proposes a methodology for numerical modeling of terraforming Mars’ atmosphere using high-energy asteroid impact and greenhouse gas production processes. The developed simulation model uses a spatial data science approach to analyze the Global
Piotr Pałka +2 more
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The Brahmavarta Initiative: A Roadmap for the First Self-Sustaining City-State on Mars
Universe, 2022 The vast universe, from its unfathomable ends to our very own Milky Way galaxy, is comprised of numerous celestial bodies—disparate yet each having their uniqueness.
Arvind Mukundan, Hsiang-Chen Wang
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Terraforming Mars is not out of the question yet - and microscopic algae could help [PDF]
Trakia Journal of Sciences, 2019 Recently some researchers have gathered around the claim that the likelihood for terraformation of Mars is slim, either because human technology is not up to the task, or the planet does not posses all the necessary resources to allow the process to be ...
Iv. Vasileva +2 more
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