Geo-engineering gone awry: A new partial solution of Fermi's paradox

JBIS - Journal British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 57, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 209-215

  Ćirković, Milan M ^a   Cathcart, Richard B ^b  

^a ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (Serbia)

^b Geographos   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Existential risks; Extraterrestrial intelligence; Geophysics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MOON; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLAR SYSTEM; THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS;

ASTROBIOLOGY; EXISTENTIAL RISKS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE;

GEOPHYSICS;

EID: 2642551518     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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