Life in the Cosmological Future: Resources, Biomass and Populations
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The long-term future of life depends on expansion in space. In fact, pioneers such as Konstantin Tsiolkovsky [2], Robert Goddard, Freeman Dyson [3-6], Robert Forward [7], John D. Bernal [8], Michael Hart [9], and many others proposed technologies to expand life in space. Scientific plans exist for mining the asteroids[10, 11], settling Mars [12-14] and space colonies that could house billions [15, 16]. The prospects for life in the late Solar System were examined [17, 18], and we proposed directed panspermia missions to expand microbial life to other solar systems [19-22]. Human expansion in the Solar System and beyond is now a recognised NASA objective [23].
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