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	Worlds without ends. (US space program) - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Ecopoiesis (the introduction of freestanding and proliferating life into a lifeless environment) and terraforming (the further project of creating an environment hospitable to human beings and other earthly animals) offer a much wider field of possible interests than do traditional visions of space exploration.
		With terraforming and ecopoiesis we are beginning to enter mental territory where the glimmer of possible human interests might begin to show.
		What the dream of ecopoiesis and terraforming also offers is a project whose grandeur equals or surpasses every previous aspiration of the human species.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-18420080.html (3899 words)

	Ecopoiesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ecopoiesis is a neologism created by Robert Haynes.
		In the context of space exploration, Haynes describes ecopoiesis as the "fabrication of a sustainable ecosystem on a currently lifeless, sterile planet".
		Ecopoiesis is a type of planetary engineering and can be a major stage of terraformation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ecopoiesis (152 words)

	Ecopoiesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ecopoiesis is a neologism created by Robert Haynes.
		In the context of space exploration, Haynes describes ecopoiesis as the "fabrication of a sustainable ecosystem on a currently lifeless, sterile planet".
		Ecopoiesis is a type of Planetary engineering and can be a major stage of terraformation.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/ec/Ecopoiesis.htm (99 words)

	Planetary engineering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Perhaps the best-known type of planetary engineering is terraforming, by which a planet's surface conditions are altered to be more like those of Earth.
		Other terms used for particular types of planetary engineering include caeliforming for the creation of an Earth-like atmosphere and ecopoiesis for the introduction of an ecology to a lifeless environment.
		Planetary engineering is largely the realm of science fiction at present, although some types of climate change on Earth could be considered a form of "geoengineering".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Planetary_engineering (579 words)

	Biology and the Planetary Engineering of Mars
		Ecopoiesis, a term derived by Haynes (1990) which, when applied to Mars, can be viewed as the creation of a self-regulating anaerobic biosphere.
		The equatorial regions of Mars appear to be ice poor whereas the heavily cratered terrain pole-ward of ± 30° latitude appears to be ice rich (Squyres and Carr, 1986), with perhaps a conservative estimate of the equivalent of 17 m of ice spread over the surface of Mars (Jankowski and Squyres, 1993).
		This luxury may not be afforded to organisms that have prospered during ecopoiesis.
	spot.colorado.edu /~marscase/cfm/articles/biorev3.html (8777 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The "Robotic Lunar Ecopoiesis Test Bed" is envisioned as a largely self-contained, robotically operated unit that will allow us to experimentally test some of the notions inherent in terraforming.
		The Lunar Ecopoiesis Facility differs from a Closed Environment Life Support Systems (CELSS) approach in that the Ecopoiesis Test Bed provides an architecture that induces the organisms and their environment to evolve on their own with minimal engineering interference.
		Experimental ecopoiesis is a new field, indeed barely in existence, so we envision a significant experimental effort here on Earth to pave the way for subsequent lunar application.
	infohost.nmt.edu /~karst/niac_phaseII.doc (896 words)

	Final Gallery
		Ecopoiesis is the period of terraforming in which conditions suitable for anaerobic lifeforms are created.
		Most current ideas for ecopoiesis rely on the expectation that heating Mars and adding atmosphere is a positive feedback system â“ as more atmosphere is added, the planet will warm up, which will cause more frozen CO2 to sublime, which will thicken the atmosphere further.
		After ecopoiesis, the planet would be a viable frontier and would probably attract many settlers tired of crowded conditions on Earth, people looking to start a new life.
	aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov /has/Students/finalGall.cfm?id=939 (2129 words)

	Haynes Terraforming Essay
		Ecopoiesis is a more modest aim, with less of the speculative extravagance associated with terraforming.
		The creation of a self-sustaining ecosystem, or biosphere, on a lifeless planet is called ecopoiesis, a new word which means ‘the making of an abode for life’.
		In addition, the prospect of ecopoiesis, as a long-range objective for civilian space agencies, raises many unresolved philosophical, political and even legal questions.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~mfogg/haynes.htm (1659 words)

	Project Gallery - Texas Aerospace Scholars Program
		Ecopoiesis is the establishment of a self-regulating anaerobic biosphere.
		Thus, warming Mars is the primary goal of ecopoiesis, and this goal can be achieved through various means that utilize a runaway greenhouse effect.
		Of course, there might be terrible effects, such as the disruption of the anaerobic ecopoiesis biosphere by the introduction of aerobic organisms, or the unfreezing of water in the regolith that might damage the ecology of the planet (although it must be done).
	www.isset.org /nasa/tss/aerospacescholars.org/scholars/amits.htm (1271 words)

	Some Ideas Regarding the Biological Colonization of The Planet Mars - Article - Red Colony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The idea of implanting terrestrial life on other planets (a process called terraformation, ecopoiesis, ecosynthesis) appeared during the first half of the twentieth century in science-fiction literary works.
		The first stage was called by specialists ecopoiesis or ecosynthesis and its finality is the implantation of the first life forms on the planet and the creation of self-regulating anaerobic ecosystems.
		Ecopoiesis on Mars could be realized by a human mechanical intervention that would produce a chain reaction.
	www.redcolony.com /art.php?id=061008a (12201 words)

	Ecopoetist
		The implantation of this pioneering biosphere is often referred to as ecopoiesis.
		But on Covenant, the oceans were calm, and the angels created nothing in the ecopoiesis that would harm their own mortal incarnations.
		Ecopoiesis - The term Ecopoiesis should have a broader use, encompassing more than just the current definition as the creation of new ecologies on other planets.
	www.wildvision.info /ecopoeti.htm (1034 words)

	On the Possibility of Terraforming Mars - Article - Red Colony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A degree of environmental modification will be required to create the conditions needed for even the hardiest of extremophiles (such as Antarctic cyanobacteria and lichens) to take on Mars as their new home.
		Ecopoiesis models of the climatic-feedback-type are inspired by the notion of recreating this archaic "warm and wet" Mars.
		Further terraforming might follow ecopoiesis by, for example, arranging for photosynthesis to oxygenate the atmosphere.
	www.redcolony.com /art.php?id=0508290 (3335 words)

	Terraforming
		Strictly speaking it can be divided into ecopoiesis, enabling the formation of a self-sustaining biosphere, and full terraforming, the transformation of a world into an environment where bioids can live unprotected.
		Birnam had made ecopoiesis and bioism to its corporate religion, refining them not just ideologically but also practically into an art of terraforming sometimes called birnamism.
		Conver Ambi, ecopoiesis became the ideological norm of the empire.
	www.orionsarm.com /tech/terraforming.html (3485 words)

	ASGSB 2005 Abstracts - Planetary Biology and Terraforming
		“Ecopoiesis” is a term introduced by McKay and Haynes to describe the initiation of a living, self-sustaining ecosystem in a planetary (Mars) environment.
		A considerable amount of thinking and writing has been devoted to these subjects, but, at least in the case of ecopoiesis, there has been very little, if any, experimental research.
		Ecopoiesis research is therefore an area with promising opportunities.
	asgsb.indstate.edu /programs/2005/95.html (213 words)

	New Literary History, vol. 35, no. 3, Summer 2004
		Reading somewhat against the grain, it is argued that this essay provides a point of departure for a rather different theory of ecopoiesis from that which Bate gleans from Heidegger's later work.
		According to this ecopoetics of negativity, the earth as primordial nature is precisely that which cannot be spoken in the work of art.
		Indeed, it is only thus, in its very failure to speak the earth while nonetheless responding to its call, entering into dialogue with it, the work of ecopoiesis succeeds in pointing the way to that which lies beyond the merely human logos that shapes our world.
	www.fabula.org /actualites/article9028.php (1268 words)

	TERRAFORMING MARS: A REVIEW OF RESEARCH.
		Unfortunately, ecopoiesis cannot be carried out spontaneously–in the sense that no known biota can simply be emplaced and expected to thrive on the present martian surface.
		Ecopoiesis models of the climatic-feedback-type are predicated on recreating this hypothetical palaeoenvironment.
		The principal assumptions of these models are that much of this CO is still present on Mars and, more crucially, that it is present in a labile form accessible to planetary engineers.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~mfogg/paper1.htm (3357 words)

	eListas.net - Mis eListas: quark: Mensajes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ecopoiesis Cualquier organismo que se libere en la superficie marciana hoy, se secaría y congelaría, sería degradado químicamente y pronto reducido a polvo.
		Métodos y teoría sobre como terraformar Marte Desafortunadamente, la ecopoiesis no puede ser llevada a cabo espontáneamente, en el sentido de que ningún ser vivo conocido puse ser simplemente implantado y esperar que sobreviva y se reproduzca en la superficie marciana tal como está ahora.
		La terraformación, que comienza por la ecopoiesis, necesita que se logren los requisitos comentados anteriormente, para poder comenzar y prosperar.
	www.elistas.net /lista/quark/archivo/indice/233/msg/261 (2362 words)

	[No title]
		Bob was the first person to coin and derive the term ecopoiesis, the end point of which, when applied to the Mars, is the intentional alteration of a presumably abiotic environment into an anaerobic biosphere.
		The first refers to the establishment of evolving microbial ecosystems in initially barren environments; the second to the transformation of a hostile planetary surface and atmosphere into an aerobic environment in which humans might live and work outdoors much as they do on Earth.
		No one knows whether ecopoiesis and terraforming are scientifically possible or technologically achievable on Mars or any other lifeless planet in the solar system.
	www.lyon.edu /projects/marsbugs/1995/19950614.txt (2402 words)

	Worlds without ends - US space program Reason - Find Articles
		Ecopoiesis (the introduction of freestanding and proliferating life into a lifeless environment) and terraforming (the further project of creating an environment hospitable to human beings and other earthly animals) offer a much wider field of possible interests than do traditional visions of space exploration.
		With terraforming and ecopoiesis we are beginning to enter mental territory where the glimmer of possible human interests might begin to show.
		One key issue is what constitutes a human "interest" and, even more important, how human interests will change during the coming era in which planetary engineering will become feasible.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1568/is_n2_v28/ai_18420080 (743 words)

	Final Gallery
		Through ecopoiesis, plants and other aerobic organisms will grow and eventually provide the oxygen needed to make life probable.
		Ecopoiesis will not immediately provide an outdoor livable environment, but could take up to 100,000 years to maintain the oxygen producing environment seen on Earth.
		Because of the greenhouse effect and ecopoiesis, terraforming of Mars is entirely possible, although at this point in time, it would take thousands of years to do so.
	aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov /has/Students/finalGall.cfm?id=4665 (484 words)

	Planetary ecosynthesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Planetary ecosynthesis implies a process of directly engineering the evolution of a planets ecosystem in order to develop a habitable planet for humans.
		Although the word is rarely used, the process may be described as the second stage of planetary engineering (after ecopoiesis) and it may also be considered a technical term analogous to the preferred term, terraforming.
		Averner, M, M. MacElroy, R. On the Habitability of Mars: An Approach to Planetary Ecosynthesis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Planetary_ecosynthesis (154 words)

	3.25.3
		Paul Todd at Space Hardware Optimization Technology (SHOT), Inc. was awarded a Phase I NIAC contract to study “Robotic Lunar Ecopoiesis” during 1 October 2003 through 31 March 2004 [1298].
		This approach differs from the Closed Environment Life Support Systems (CELSS) approach in that the Ecopoiesis Test Bed is an architecture that causes the environment to evolve on its own, starting with water and nitrogen and spores or inactive cells of appropriate prokaryotes, seeds, and eggs of organisms that eventually occupy the module.
		Experimental ecopoiesis is a new field, so experiments will begin in the laboratory and evolve to ISS (International Space Station) in at least three phases before a lunar module is considered.
	www.molecularassembler.com /KSRM/3.25.3.htm (334 words)

	Ecopoiesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		There are many advantages of inhabitation of Mars before full terraformation has occurred: the thicker atmosphere will improve shielding from cosmic rays, flight will be made possible on Mars and humans could replace pressure suits for simple breathing equipment (when outside the biospheres).
		However, ecopoiesis will not occur as quickly as first thought.
		There are no known bacteria that could be expected to live and thrive on the present Martian surface.
	www.whitchurch-school.org.uk /generalinf/newsitems/nasaproj/Ecopoiesis.shtml (266 words)

	Untitled Document
		In this sense, home cannot be excluded from the greater ecological and biospheric realities in which it is embedded.
		Ecopoiesis, then, is consciously creating a mutually beneficial relationship between the human community and the natural world.
		And, ecopoiesis is best conceived and designed at village-scale.
	www.villagedesign.org /vdi_intro2.htm (525 words)

	PhotonSwarm Futurology Article - Terraforming
		Much of the research in the scientific community focuses on the possibility of terraforming Mars, firstly allowing anaerobic life, then possibly in the future supporting terrestrial aerobic life such as humans.
		It is defined by Fogg as "the fabrication of an uncontained, anaerobic, biosphere on the surface of a sterile planet.
		The initial stage of planetary engineering leading to ecopoiesis has been the focus of most terraforming research.
	photonswarm.com /futurology/?article=12 (668 words)

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		A few of the many reasons why there is scientific interest in terraforming Mars include the opportunity to study and spread life beyond earth as well as examine how biospheres grow and evolve.
		But before terraforming through ecopoiesis can be initiated, a habitable environment described as Precambrian-like must be engineered.
		Even though “Full” terraforming of Mars (the achievement of an aerobic planet suitable for humans and animals) does not seem to be an impossible goal, it is likely to remain distant.
	www.scs.gmu.edu /~msalvado/csi801proj/mar4v3.html (2681 words)

	Terraforming Mars
		Obviously, it depends on what variety of organism you’re discussing - terraforming is generally viewed as an incremental process, so at first we are interested only in creating the conditions necessary for sustaining the simplest microorganisms.
		ecopoiesis: “...the fabrication of an uncontained, anaerobic biosphere on the surface of a sterile planet.”
		Ecopoiesis can be thought of as a “bare minimum” requirement - once it is achieved (ostensibly through the introduction of a suitable pioneering microorganism), there still remains a great deal before more complicated plant or animal organisms can thrive.
	www.uidzero.net /knowles/Terraform.html (695 words)

	ASGSB 2005 Abstracts - Toward a Concept of Habitability: Applications to Experimental Ecopoiesis
		The concept of habitability is central to our understanding of what we may be trying to achieve by ecologically terraforming another planet (aka ecopoiesis).
		In our recent progress towards developing an experimentally based approach to ecopoiesis for Mars application, we are grappling with a meaningful definition.
		Such factors will be used to test the ecological, physiological, and evolutionary interactions of communities and organisms that are candidates for ecopoietic use.
	asgsb.indstate.edu /programs/2005/97.html (280 words)

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