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Title: Beyond

Subtitle: Our Future in Space

Author: Chris Impey

Narrator: Julie McKay

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-26-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 67 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Beyond dares to imagine a fantastic future for humans in space - and then reminds us that we're already there. Human exploration has been an unceasing engine of technological progress, from the first homo sapiens to leave our African cradle to a future in which mankind promises to settle another world. Beyond tells the epic story of humanity leaving home - and how humans will soon thrive in the vast universe beyond the Earth.

A dazzling and propulsive voyage through space and time, Beyond reveals how centuries of space explorers - from the earliest stargazers to today's cutting-edge researchers - all draw inspiration from an innate human emotion: wanderlust. This urge to explore led us to multiply around the globe, and it can be traced in our DNA.

Today, the urge to discover manifests itself in jaw-dropping ways: plans for space elevators poised to replace rockets at a fraction of the cost; experiments in suspending and reanimating life for ultra-long-distance travel; prototypes for solar sails that coast through space on the momentum of microwaves released from the Earth. With these ventures, private companies and entrepreneurs have the potential to outpace NASA as the leaders in a new space race.

Combining expert knowledge of astronomy and avant-garde technology, Chris Impey guides us through the heady possibilities for the next century of exploration. In 20 years, a vibrant commercial space industry will be operating. In 30 years, there will be small but viable colonies on the Moon and Mars. In 50 years, mining technology will have advanced enough to harvest resources from asteroids. In a hundred years, a cohort of humans born off-Earth will come of age without ever visiting humanity's home planet. This is not the stuff of science fiction but rather the logical extension of already available technologies.

Members Reviews:

OTHER WORLDS

After listening to Chris David Impeys book, Beyond: Our Future in Space, traveling to other worlds seems distant and practically un-achievable. Impey cleverly begins his story about space travel as though the first human who permanently leaves earth is born in the 21st century. Impeys novelist beginning is revisited twice, but the true subject of Beyond: Our Future in Space is the physics, astronomy, and observational cosmology of the present day.

One presumes Impeys purpose is to encourage the possibility of reaching the stars but by the end little optimism remains with the listener. The daunting tasks of overcoming gravity, surviving an inhospitable environment, and leaving the only home humans have ever known proffers a gob of pessimism. Some minor relief is offered with a comparison of human migration across the continents in earths history but one questions the analogy. With that correlation, Impey speculates that historys adventurers on earth have something in common with future adventurers in space.

In support of Impeys speculation: In ancient history, who would have thought human beings would sail for a new world when many thought sailing from land meant you would fall off the edge of earth? Maybe that is where space exploration is today. Impeys fictional character arrives at an exoplanet with her team. She and her team are at the end and beginning of Beyond: Our Future in Space. Now that is optimism.

Performance driving me mad

The reader has this strange stilted style that puts all the emphasis in the wrong place.