Abstract Because permanent space settlement will be multigenerational it will have to be viable on ecological timescales so far unfamiliar to those planning space exploration. Long-term viability will require evolutionary and adaptive planning. Adaptations in the natural world provide many lessons for such planning, but implementing these lessons will require a new, evolutionary paradigm for envisioning and carrying out Earth-independent space settlement. I describe some of these adaptive lessons and propose some cognitive shifts required to implement them in a genuinely evolutionary approach to human space settlement.

    Highlights Space settlement success requires a genuinely evolutionary and adaptive context. Space settlement is different from space exploration and requires new terminology. Space settlement should be discussed in evolutionary and adaptive terms.


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    Title :

    An adaptive paradigm for human space settlement


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Acta Astronautica ; 119 ; 207-217


    Publication date :

    2015-11-10


    Size :

    11 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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