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Bezig met laden... Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are (editie 2024)door Rebecca Boyle (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkOur Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are door Rebecca Boyle Geen Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Made me really enthusiastic about the moon. A creative way to provide a perspective on the moon. Now I have a little better understanding of why suddenly rockets are being sent to South Pole of moon. On one level it is exciting to think people will probably be back in less than two years. I still remember the first landing and almost being bored by the last landings. I remember the Apollo fire. The moon is still worthy of study. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Far from being a lifeless ornament in the sky, the Moon holds the answers to some of science's central questions. Silent, dry, and barren, Earth's 4.34-billion-year-old companion is essential to life on earth. Its gravity stabilized the Earth's orbit, and, as it once guided evolution, its tide stirring up nutrients that fostered complex life, it now influences everything from animal migrations and reproduction to the movements of plants' leaves. More than 30,000 years before humans invented writing, they used the Moon's waxing and waning to track the passage of time, and, in a tectonic shift for human consciousness, used it to plan for the future. Unsurprisingly, the Moon was a primary feature of the first religions, written language, and philosophy. But our relationship to the Moon became more concrete when Apollo landed on it in 1969 in a moment of scientific and political triumph. And both engineering and politics promise to shape our relationship with it in the near future. Scientists advocate for a return to the moon to do research; governments and billionaires want to return to turn a profit from its mineral resources. Who gets to decide how we use a celestial body that, Boyle argues, belongs to everyone and no one? How can we learn to protect this beautiful, spectral thing that we all share?"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)523.3Natural sciences and mathematics Astronomy Astronomical objects and astrophysics MoonLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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