ASTROLAW. Carrying Human Rights into Outer Space.
George S. Robinson, The Futurist, May-June 1990.
BIOSPHERE. A New Consciousness for a New
Century. Jeremy Rifkin, 1991, Crown Publishers.
(How industrialized nations exploit the sea beds
of the world for industrial minerals, especially as
land-based minerals are depleted.)
COSMIC WORMHOLES. The Search for Interstellar
Shortcuts. Paul Halpern, 1992, Dutton, Penguin Group,
New York, NY.
MINING THE SKY. Untold Riches from the Asteroids,
Comets, and Planets. John S. Lewis, 1997, Helix
Books, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA. (Foreseeable
technologies may reveal huge quantities of raw
materials from space.)
MONITORING AND CONTROLLING DEBRIS IN SPACE.
Nicholas Johnson. August, 1998, Scientific American.
OPENING THE DOOR ON TIME MACHINES. Caltech
physicist Kip Thorne explores the limits of
Einstein's theory of gravity, where spunnels
-- or tunnels through space -- lurk. (K. C. Cole,
Times Science Writer, The Los Angeles Times,
February 13, 1998.)
RE-EXAMINING OUR CONSTITUTIONAL HERITAGE.
A Declaration of First Principles for the
Governance of Outer Space Societies.
(An Essay by George S. Robinson, 1989,
High Technology Law Journal, School of Law,
University of California, Berkeley.)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THIRD UNITED NATIONS
CONFERENCE ON THE EXPLORATION AND
THE PEACEFUL USES OF OUTER SPACE.
The Space Millennium: Vienna Declaration
on Space and Human Development.
http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/unisp-3/ or
http://nuclearfree.lynx.co.nz/canadatreaty.htm
THE LIMITS TO GROWTH. A Report to the Club
of Rome (Depletion of the world's non-renewable
natural resources). http://dieoff.com/page25.htm
CHINA PLANS MOON LANDING, October 5, 2000,
by Charles Hutzler, Associated Press.
QUANTUM TELEPORTATION, Anton Zeilinger,
Scientific American, April 2000. (Abstract:
The "spooky action at a distance" of quantum
mechanics makes possible the science-fiction
dream of teleportation -- a way to make objects
disappear from one place and reappear at another.
It has already been demonstrated with photons.)
QUANTUM TELEPORTATION, an IBM Research article.
http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/
TERRITORIAL SEA AND CONTIGUOUS ZONE, Part
Two, United Nations Law of the Sea Convention.
http://www.un.org/depts/los/index.htm
(Precedents.)
THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND THE REMAKING
OF WORLD ORDER. Samuel P. Huntington, 1996,
Simon & Shuster, New York, NY.
THE MILLENNIAL PROJECT. Colonizing the Galaxy
in Eight Easy Steps. Marshall T. Savage, 1994,
Little, Brown & Company, New York, NY.
PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH. Vision for Space Exploration.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/
print/20040114-3.html