Human exploration and settlement of Mars: The roles of humans and robots

More Human Than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots and Manufactured Humanity

✍ Neil Clarke 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Night Shade Books;Skyhorse Publishing Company, Inc 🌐 English ⚖ 473 KB 👁 3 views

The idea of creating an artificial human is an old one. One of the earliest science-fictional novels, Frankenstein, concerned itself primarily with the hubris of creation, and one's relationship to one's creator. Later versions of this "artificial human" story (and indeed later adaptations of Franke

More Human Than Human: Stories of Androids, Robots and Manufactured Humanity

✍ Neil Clarke 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Night Shade Books;Skyhorse Publishing Company, Inc 🌐 English ⚖ 473 KB 👁 3 views

The idea of creating an artificial human is an old one. One of the earliest science-fictional novels, Frankenstein, concerned itself primarily with the hubris of creation, and one's relationship to one's creator. Later versions of this "artificial human" story (and indeed later adaptations of Franke

Relational and Transcendental Humanism:

Relational and Transcendental Humanism: Exploring the Consequences of a Thoroughly Pragmatic Humanism

✍ HANSEN, JAMES T. 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 American Counseling Association 🌐 English ⚖ 140 KB

The relational and transcendental elements of humanism are considered. Although the relational component of humanism is extraordinarily valuable, the author argues that the transcendental portion of humanism should be abandoned. The implications of a thoroughly pragmatic humanism are explored.

Human factors of industrial robots and r

Human factors of industrial robots and robot safety management in Japan

✍ Mitsuo Nagamachi 📂 Article 📅 1986 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 881 KB

The State and Future of Mars Polar Scien

The State and Future of Mars Polar Science and Exploration

✍ Stephen M. Clifford; David Crisp; David A. Fisher; Ken E. Herkenhoff; Suzanne E. 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 1020 KB

As the planet's principal cold traps, the martian polar regions have accumulated extensive mantles of ice and dust that cover individual areas of ∼10 6 km 2 and total as much as 3-4 km thick. From the scarcity of superposed craters on their surface, these layered deposits are thought to be comparati

Mass spectrometry in the exploration of

Mass spectrometry in the exploration of Mars

✍ Catherine Fenselau; Richard Caprioli; A. O. Nier; W. B. Hanson; A. Seiff; M. B. 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 323 KB

Two surface samples collected from the Chryse Planitia region of Mars were heated to temperatures up to 500 °C, and the volatiles that they evolved were analyzed with a gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer. Only water and carbon dioxide were detected. This implies that organic compounds have not accu