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William Burrows, journalism academic

Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2003, A16. Also available online at http://www.arc-space.org/prod02.htm.

“mass extinction.” In The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th ed. Edited by Paul Lagassé. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Also available online at http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=30472.

J. Richard Gott, astrophysicist

Gott, J. Richard. Time Travel in Einstein’s Universe: The Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time. London: Phoenix, 2002.

Louis J. Halle, foreign policy academic

Halle, Louis J. “A Hopeful Future for Mankind.” Foreign Affairs 58, no. 5 (Summer 1980): 1129–1136. Also available online at http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19800601faessay8146/louis-j-halle/a-hopeful-future-for-mankind.html.

Stephen Hawking, physicist and mathematician

Martin Rees, cosmologist

Rees, Martin. Our Final Hour: A Scientist’s Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind’s Future in This Century—On Earth and Beyond. New York: Basic Books, 2003.

Carl Sagan, space scientist

Sagan, Carl. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. New York: Random House, 1994.

Shapiro, Robert. Planetary Dreams: The Quest to Discover Life Beyond Earth. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
Shapiro, Robert. “The World Question Center 2003.” Edge, 2003, http://www.edge.org/q2003/q03_shapiro.html.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, astronautical theorist

Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin. “The Aims of Astronautics.” Translated by X. Danko. In The Call of the Cosmos. Edited by V. Dutt. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1960?.

John Young, astronaut

Young, John. “The Big Picture: Ways to Mitigate or Prevent Very Bad Planet Earth Events.” balettie.com, 1999?, http://space.balettie.com/Young.html.

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