solar energy, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1
solar management, 19.1, 20.1
solar system, 2.1, 20.1
colonized, 13.1, 22.1, 23.1
extraterrestrial life in
see also asteroid impacts
Solnit, Rebecca
space colonization, itr.1, itr.2, 13.1, 13.2, 18.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 22.1, 23.1
space economy
space elevator, itr.1, 21.1, 21.2, 23.1
benefits of
carbon nanotubes in, 21.1, 21.2
commercial spaceflight and
concept of
laser power source of, 21.1, 21.2
length of, 21.1, nts.1n
location of, 21.1, 21.2
ribbon of, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
robotic climbers of, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4
Space Elevator, The (Edwards),
Space Elevator Conference, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4
Spaceguard program, 20.1, 20.2
Space Shuttle, 21.1, 21.2
space stations, 20.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3
SpaceX, 21.1, 21.2
Spanish Inquisition, 10.1, 10.2
specialized landscapes, 9.1, 9.2
speciation, 6.1, 6.2, 22.1, nts.1n, nts.2n
depression of, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
spherules
SPIN (small-plot intensive farming) model, 18.1, 18.2, nts.1n
Statute of Laborers (England, 1351), 8.1
Stenseth, Nils
Sterling, Raymond
Stigall, Alycia
Stockholm
Stone, Elizabeth
storytelling, itr.1, itr.2, 6.1, 7.1, 12.1
see also science fiction
stratospheric particle injection, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1, nts.1n–88n
stromatolites
sulfur, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 19.1, 19.2
Summons, Roger, 1.1, 1.2, 19.1
Sumner, Dawn
Sun, 1.1, nts.1n
blocking light of
galactic orbit of
ultraviolet radiation of, 17.1, 17.2
survival, survivors:
as compromise
of Devonian extinction
of famines, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
food webs and
of K-T extinction
Permian, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1
survivalism vs.
survivance vs.
Sustainable Energy—Without the Hot Air (MacKay),
Svalbard Global Seed Vault, nts.1n
synapsids
Lystrosaurus, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1
synthetic biology
moral issues of, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
space-ready bodies engineered by
Takhirov, Shakhzod, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Tattersall, Ian, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2
Tempel 1 comet
10,000 Year Explosion, The (Cochran and Harpending),
terraforming, 19.1, 23.1, 23.2
of Milky Way galaxy
Texas A&M
therapod dinosaurs, 4.1, 4.2
Thomas, George
Time Machine, The (Wells),
Titan, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2
Toba megavolcano, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
tools, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5
Toronto
transfer entitlements, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Triassic Period, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2
trilobites, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Trinkhaus, Erik
Triumph of the City (Glaeser),
Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin, 21.1, 21.2
tsunamis, itr.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 20.1, nts.1n
Turkey, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
ancient underground cities in, 17.1, 17.2
Uncommon Good
underground cities, 17.1, 20.1
of ancient Judeo-Christian refugees, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
building codes and
earthquakes and
Montréal’s “RÉSO,” 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
of NORAD, 17.1, 17.2
psychological effects of
water leakage in, 17.1, 17.2
Underground Space Design (Carmody and Sterling),
United Nations:
Climate Change Conferences of, 19.1, nts.1n
Population Division of, 14.1, nts.1n
space committees of, 20.1, 21.1
United States:
Energy Department of
Jewish communities of, 10.1, 10.2
Midwest breadbaskets of, 9.1, 9.2
uploaded brains, 22.1, 23.1, 23.2
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
vaccination, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
Vancouver
Venice
Vertical Farm, The (Despommier),
“Virgin Soils Revisited” (Jones)
virtual reality
Vizenor, Gerald
volcanoes
aerosols emitted by
greenhouse gases emitted by, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2
Krakatoa eruption, 19.1, 19.2
sea-floor vent
tuff created by
underwater, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1
see also megavolcanoes
Walker, Richard, 14.1, 17.1
Ward, Peter
warfare, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 23.1
biblical, 10.1, nts.1n
famines and, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5
nuclear radiation bombardment in, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Washington University
Wator computer game
weathering, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1
enhanced
Weir, Alex
Weisman, Alan
Wells, H. G.
Wessen, Randii, 21.1, 23.1
whalers, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, nts.1n
whales, 12.1, 12.2
see also gray whales
whale watchers
White, Randall
Whiteside, Jessica
WHO (World Health Organization), 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 16.5, 16.6
Wiese, Claudia
Wilson, E. O., itr.1, nts.1n
WISE satellite, 20.1, 20.2
Wolpoff, Milford, 7.1, 7.2
World War I
World War II, 9.1, 9.2
World Without Us, The (Weisman), 14.1, 18.1
Wu, Joseph
Yamada, Tadataka
Yersinia pestis, 8.1, 16.1
Young, Seth
Yucatán Peninsula
Zacharias, John, 17.1, 17.2
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ANNALEE NEWITZ is the founding editor of the science Web site io9.com and a journalist with a decade’s experience writing about science, culture, and the future for such publications as Wired, Popular Science, and The Washington Post. She is the editor of the anthology She’s Such a Geek!: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff and was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She lives in San Francisco.
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