Great Mambo Chicken And the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over the Edge - Couverture rigide

Regis, Edward

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670838551 ISBN 13 : 9780670838554

Editeur : Viking, 1991

Synopsis

This book explores the work of scientists working at the edge of science on projects too ridiculous for science fiction: the "Deathbusters" at Alcor Extension who will freeze your head for a price; building time machines; hatching plans for dismantling the sun; Evel Knievel and the private astronaut programme and, of course, the mambo chickens who spend their whole lives in intensified gravity and are built like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Here are Dave Criswell, who plans to recycle the stars to increase their energy efficiency; and Bob Forward, designer of time machines, the grey goo problem and a fifth-dimensional hypervelocity space drive.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Enter the gray area between overheated imagination and overheated reality, and meet a network of scientists bent on creating artificial life forms, building time machines, hatching plans for dismantling the sun, enclosing the solar system in a cosmic eggshell, and faxing human minds to the far side of the galaxy. With Ed Regis as your guide, walk the fine line between science fact and fiction on this freewheeling and riotously funny tour through some of the most serious science there is.

Biographie de l'auteur

Ed Regis, a frequent contributor to Omni magazine, is College Scholar at Western Maryland College. He is at work on a new book about extremely advanced science and technology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Viking
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0670838551
• ISBN 13: 9780670838554
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible