Lunacy
Ten False Promises of the New Space Age
$37.06
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
Why we shouldn’t colonize Mars or the Moon, or even vacation there
If certain business titans, corporations, and governments have their way, humans will someday be living, working, and vacationing in space. This is the much-vaunted New Space Age, and in Lunacy, philosopher Ben Bramble explains why it is a giant mistake. Bramble systematically refutes each of the ten most influential reasons given for this new generation of space exploration (and habitation), …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691281285 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691281289 |
| Author: | Ben Bramble |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm |
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About The Author
Ben Bramble
Ben Bramble is lecturer in philosophy in the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University and a mission specialist at ANU’s Institute for Space. He is the author of The Passing of Momentary Well-Being and Pandemic Ethics: 8 Big Questions of COVID-19. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Sydney Morning Herald.
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