Publisher's Synopsis
Volume 20 (236 pages) is in honor of Gerard K. O'Neill (1927-1992). One question Dr. O'Neill attempted to answer was "Is the surface of a planet really the right place for an expanding technological civilization?" Eight of the thirteen chapters are related to this question (or to Dr. O'Neill). Five of the thirteen chapters are related to other important topics. The anthology's chapters (by professional philosophers and other scholars and professionals) are directed to issues related to death, life extension, and anti-death, broadly construed. The contributions consist of relevant reprints as well as scholarship unique to this volume. As was the case with all previous volumes in the Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria University Press, the anthology includes an Abstracts section that serves as an extended table of contents. (part 1 of 2) CHAPTER ONE Future Space Programs - 9 August 1975 (Congressional Statement By Asimov) By Isaac Asimov; CHAPTER TWO Images Of Gerry: The Enduring Personae Of Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill By Emily Carney; CHAPTER THREE Peace From On High By Joe Haldeman; CHAPTER FOUR Space Colonization And Energy Supply To Earth by Gerard K. O'Neill; CHAPTER FIVE Outer Space Treaty Of 1967 By The States Parties To The Outer Space Treaty Of 1967; CHAPTER SIX Death - The Extinction Of The Individual And Its Consequences For Civilization By John Strickland Jr.; CHAPTER SEVEN Future Space Programs - 26 January 1978 (Congressional Statement By Tandy) By Charles Tandy; CHAPTER EIGHT You Have A Duty To Migrate Off-Planet . . . (From Blue Origin To Green Destiny: Gerard K. O'Neill And Planetary Crises) By Charles Tandy; (part 2 of 2) CHAPTER NINE Biology, Buddhism, And AI: Care As The Driver Of Intelligence by Thomas Doctor, Olaf Witkowski, Elizaveta Solomonova, Bill Duane, and Michael Levin; CHAPTER TEN A Mathematical Model Of Infinite Survival by R. Michael Perry; CHAPTER ELEVEN So Help Me Hannah (An Essay On Commitment) by Bennett Rutledge; CHAPTER TWELVE The 2021 Forward Party Morphed In 2022 Into - Into What? by Charles Tandy; CHAPTER THIRTEEN "Death In Damascus" Solution To The Fermi Paradox by Alexey Turchin and Roman Yampolskiy.
