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	Interstellar ark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An interstellar ark is a conceptual space vehicle that some have speculated could be used to traverse the distances between stars.
		An interstellar ark might be a generation ship or a sleeper ship.
		The concept of an interstellar ark was used humorously in the cult sci-fi classic The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in the form of the B-Ark of the Golgafrincham Ark Fleet, filled to capacity with cryosleeping advertising executives, management consultants, independent filmmakers, and other "undesirables" whom the Golgafrinchams wanted to get rid of.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Interstellar_ark (633 words)

	Ark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ark of the Covenant, consecrated container for Moses's tablets of Ten Commandments.
		Noah's Ark, a massive vessel Noah allegedly built at God's command to keep him, his family, and a core breeding stock of the world’s animals safe.
		Ark (folk venue), a world-class concert venue in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ark (248 words)

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		Interstellar arks using the Solar System as a supply depot would have an unobservably short residence time before returning to their native interstellar habitat.
		A civilization able to conduct a programme of vigorous interstellar exploration using vehicles which are expensive to build and launch, takes decades or centuries to reach their destinations, and which must perform exceedingly complex tasks upon arrival must be highly skilled in automata engineering.
		The amount and quality of data obtained for the builders of a flyby interstellar probe are quite limited [44], and the idea that probes pass by only briefly on their way to other stars makes little sense in view of the tremendous distances which must be covered to reach the Solar System [45].
	www.rfreitas.com /Astro/SETAJBISNov1983.htm (5413 words)

	National Institute for Discovery Science: The Reenchantment of the Solar System: A Proposed Search for Local ET’s
		For decades or century duration interstellar voyages at speeds as high as 10% of the speed of light (0.1c), a favored propulsion system is the laser light sail (22).
		For a small interstellar ark massing a few million kilograms, the fully unfurled sail dimensions are typically about 100 km and peak accelerations are in the neighborhood of a few g (where 1 g = 1 Earth surface gravity).
		This payload mass is similar to that of Gilfillan in an early treatment of interstellar arks (42) and suggested to Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin by this author for use in his science fiction novel with John Barnes, Encounter with Tiber (Warner, NY, 1996).
	www.nidsci.org /essaycomp/gmatloff.html (8284 words)

	generation ship
		An immense, relatively slow-moving spacecraft, also known as an interstellar ark, aboard which many generations would live and die on a voyage between stars.
		Almost certainly, interstellar travel will never be accomplished by this means though it is still possible that the related concept of the space colony will come to fruition.
		The AAAS held a session on interstellar travel in 2002 where the anthropologist John Moore estimated that a population of 150-180 was just big enough to allow normal reproduction for 60-80 generations.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/G/generationship.html (556 words)

	RFP.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		An "Ark Ship" settlement was first suggested to Foundation Society leadership eight years ago, with an emotionally appealing presentation that advocated the pioneering symbology of such a mission.
		Differences between operations in Earth orbit, during Ark Ship mode, and at the final destination shall also be described; this may include alternate uses for port facilities when exports and imports are not practical, and provisions for providing light and energy far from solar sources.
		Ark Ship residents will have the capability to learn of technology advancements on Earth, although communications will be greatly delayed as Darwinat travels through interstellar space.
	green.homeunix.org /~green/RFP.html (2862 words)

	sfbg.com \| Frequencies
		The first time an ark appears in jazz, a fl man has left the segregation of Alabama for the doo-wop and jazz of Chicago.
		The one exception, Build an Ark's "The Stars Are Singing Too (Door of the Cosmos)," trades electronics for hand drums, hand claps, flutes, and a chorus of voices led by Dwight Trible that sounds like it was recorded in a cozy living room.
		Build an Ark is the arkestra born of the arkestra, and while some of its compositions are avowed throwbacks to the jazz collectives of the sixties and seventies, it stays contemporary at the right moments.
	www.sfbg.com /38/15/x_frequencies.html (676 words)

	Fermi's Paradox: A Real Howler
		O'Neill-style interstellar ark-dwellers probably also will avoid inhabited systems like ours for the same reasons as the wealth-seekers, and also because they will be well-adapted physically and psychologically to life in deep space.
		Interstellar ovum arks, generation ships, and automated bio-regeneration only make new independent competitors for exactly the same limited galactic resources.
		Maybe there can be no interstellar "bad apples," because they self-destruct before damaging any others, or because they have never survived long enough to complete their galactiforming program and leave any major observable effects.
	www.rfreitas.com /Astro/FermiHowler1984.htm (3551 words)

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		Mysterious creatures from the cosmic darkness are seen to approach the lonely ark ship from all directions in space and attack its occupants during sleep, putting the mission into jeopardy.
		In a desperate effort to safeguard their very survival, the ship’s 3,000-strong small town residents are forced into a battle which they seem powerless to win, since the nightmare creatures appear to be operating in an alternate dimension from their own.
		The whole scene appeared to be shrouded in a wispy cloud of interstellar gas and dust that was backlit by the three suns, causing it to glow in a myriad of subtle shades and colours.
	www.publishedauthors.net /aa_spaceagent (2802 words)

	Music \| Space races (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The one exception, Build an Ark’s "The Stars Are Singing Too (Door of the Cosmos)," trades electronics for hand drums, hand claps, flutes, and a chorus of voices led by Dwight Trible that sounds as if it had been recorded in a cozy living room.
		As well as to Ra, Build an Ark dedicate the album to another ark advocate, pianist Horace Tapscott, who founded the Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra in 1961.
		Build an Ark are the arkestra born of the Arkestra, and though some of their compositions are avowed throwbacks to the jazz collectives of the ’60s and ’70s, the band stay contemporary at the right moments.
	www.portlandphoenix.com /music/other_stories/documents/03613509.asp (721 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Redemption Ark (Gollancz SF S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Despite minor glitches in story logic, Redemption Ark is a hugely enjoyable and ambitious interstellar epic, a must-read for fans of SF that operates on a truly colossal scale.
		The good news is that Redemption Ark is a return to form after the sloppy Chasm City, though the novel is still far from flawless.
		Worse is the gutted climax, as after an interstellar chase sequence lasting at least one hundred pages Reynolds again cuts out the final confrontation between the forces of the defecting Clavain and his Conjoiner pursuers, instead opting to gloss over the events by jumping forward in time and offering a brief flashback synopsis.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0575068809 (1464 words)

	Sharp Blue: Redemption Ark
		Redemption Ark is that it is a middle volume of an ongoing series.
		The Conjoiners, though, have discovered a much more deadly threat both to themselves and to all of humanity: one of their interstellar expeditions has been all but annihilated by the implacably hostile machine civilisation that they are soon calling the Wolves.
		Volyova, however, has her own urgent plans for the weapons: the Inhibitors awakened by Resurgam's colonists have begun to disassemble worlds, and their aim is nothing less than the total extinction of humankind.
	www.theculture.org /rich/sharpblue/archives/000024.html (484 words)

	Books By Orson Scott Card - Lovelock - Chapter 1
		I also welcomed the move to the village of Mayflower on the interstellar Ark. A great adventure; she was so happy I couldn't help but be delighted myself.
		Even though the children hardly understood what the Ark would mean, they had caught on that something exciting was happening, which made them jumpy and quick to whine -- not my favorite trait in human children -- but the adults were no less jumpy in their own way.
		I would have long since stored the scene on the Ark's master computer, exactly as I saw it; she would play it out on the holographic display of her terminal, zooming in for a closeup of her sister's face.
	www.hatrack.com /cgi-bin/print_friendly.cgi?page=/osc/books/lovelock01.shtml (4091 words)

	Big Gyros
		It may be best suited to artificial lighting in an interstellar ark type of design.
		As a further example, the 'Explorer Class' 'fast' interstellar ship design study suggests contra-rotating segmented tori as habitations, to control torque effects on the ship as a whole when the habitations are spun up and down for different (accelerating and non-accelerating) portions of the proposed flight.
		The arrangement shown above may work in an in-system colony, but it would share the problems, mentioned above, of a side by side pair of cylinders if used for an interstellar ark, in that the frontal area to be shielded may be unnecessarily large.
	website.lineone.net /~geowood/biggyros.htm (975 words)

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		The interstellar generator was the heart of the spacecraft and was the hub of the ships intergalactic engine; an engine which would thrust the vessel across the cosmos to a destination nearly half-way across the known universe.
		In time, Jor's family group hoped to acquire more of this essential spacecraft building material and construct an interstellar ark. While the probeships were being coupled to interstellar engines and readied for launch, Lara returned to the storage facility and measured the mass of the extra spaceship fabrication material.
		During the testing of the interstellar probeships, the El family group was astonished to learn that the time required to travel between any two inter-galactic locations would be nearly instantaneous.
	www.lcfanfic.com /stories/2002/twofrom.txt (21612 words)

	Voyager plows through solar system’s frontier - Space.com - MSNBC.com
		The termination shock is where the solar wind first runs up against the pressure of the interstellar medium.
		The Voyager 1 spacecraft is on the verge of slicing into interstellar space, NASA officials said Tuesday.
		When the solar wind meets interstellar gas, a teardrop-shaped shock wave develops as it is slowed dramatically from an average speed of up to 1.5 million mph (700 kilometers per second).
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7965626 (788 words)

	achilles
		Even if the probe goes near the speed of light, the scientific team that dispatched it to a star 20 or 30 light-years off will be dead, retired, or close to retirement when the facts about that star start coming in.
		As I have remarked, if there is to be interstellar exploration, or much more interplanetary endeavor, we must posit a civilization possessing high technology, sufficient wealth that it can afford this, and enough interest on the part of whoever controls it that the necessary resources will be forthcoming.
		An interstellar mission is going to be away for a very long time.
	www.contact-conference.com /archive/coti4.html (9897 words)

	The Challenge of Space Mining
		Launching a small interstellar probe is a very different challenge to simply flying a micro- or nanoprobe; but no doubt people will eventually want to try & make the trip (especially if useable life expectancy continues to expand beyond the biblical three score years & ten).
		The goal would be to launch the fleet before any of them are completely built; with only a skeleton crew on board each (you might be talking about leaving with less than 10% of final capacity prepared)...
		Interestingly, it would be feasible to restock your ark with consumables when you arrive at your target star; or simply abandon it in flight: either to colonise an interstellar world; or - probably more likely - to build a bigger ark for the next leg of your endless journey.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/asteroid-99i.html (2086 words)

	The Space Ark from When Worlds Collide
		Plans are immediately made to build a giant "space ark" to save as many people as possible.
		The Space Ark has room for 39 carefully selected passengers and their supplies.
		Instead of taking off vertically, the Space Ark is mounted on a rocket-propelled undercarriage that in turn runs along a twin-railed track.
	www.starships.com /SF_Image96.HTML (413 words)

	Amazon.com: Lovelock (The Mayflower Trilogy, Book 1): Books: Orson Scott Card,Kathryn H. Kidd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As Carol Jeanne's family (including her overbearing mother-in-law and browbeaten father-in-law) settle into the strange, self-contained world of the interstellar Ark (whose population is divided into small agricultural communities as practice for their future lives on a new world), Lovelock begins to chafe under the bonds of his psychological conditioning.
		The "Ark" is populated with all kinds of people who are to be useful and productive in the new colony.
		I don't know if this is the solution, but the crew of the ark have been hanging around in limbo for SEVERAL years now, I think it's high time they were allowed to progress on their journey.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812518055?v=glance (2259 words)

	Pushing
		The chances of more than one Earth, the energy requirements for constant acceleration at 1g, the time dilation effects for the very high velocities that would rapidly be achieved and the erosive effects of the interstellar medium at such high velocities would all suggest that it is unlikely.
		Such braking may be more troublesome with a non-rigid habitat support and the thought of having two contra-rotating sets of cable suspended habitats flexing under braking creates some interesting possibilities for accidents.
		Also, Starks has pointed out that in such circumstances the erosion shielding for the suspended habitats at relativistic interstellar velocities may be problematic.
	website.lineone.net /~geowood/pushing.htm (1221 words)

	SF Citations for OED
		Dave Langford checked "The World, The Flesh and the Devil", which was published by Bernal in 1929 and discusses the concept of space arks, but Bernal uses the terms "space vessel" and "globe", and not "space ark".
		Religious prophets..were recruiting funds and followers for huge space arks in which they would journey to a promised planet.
		Some writers suggested that these Space Arks should be built in the form of concentric spheres; others proposed hollow, spinning cylinders so that centrifugal force could provide artificial gravity—exactly what we've found in Rama..
	www.jessesword.com /sf/view/994 (396 words)

	The Book Of THoTH - Library - Aliens - The Search For Extraterrestrial Artifacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		An attempt to verify this hypothesis experimentally, the search for extraterrestrial artifacts (SETA), is proposed to detect such evidence in the Solar System by telescopic, radar, infrared, direct probe, or other available means.
		Interstellar arks using the Solar System as a supply depot would have an unobservably short residence time before returning to their native inter-stellar habitat.
		A replicative interstellar probe factory will minimise creation of mechanical refuse to mini-raise production time, and will also recycle for reasons of efficiency.
	www.book-of-thoth.com /sections-viewarticle-631.html (5621 words)

	Interstellar Travel: A Family Affair?
		Barring major advances in longevity, this means that several generations of astronauts would have to be born, raised, trained, and kept healthy in pretty tight quarters.
		Experts unfolded such a scenario at a seminar on interstellar travel held last weekend at meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.
		"An interstellar ship bringing everything capable of forming a settlement would literally be an interstellar ark, carrying with it all the forms of Earthly life the colonists might need, at least in the form of embryos.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2002/02/0220_0220_wirelifeinspace.html (599 words)

	Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds
		Because of their strangeness, they are feared by the rest of humanity.
		By the time of Redemption Ark war has broken out in the Yellowstone system between the Conjoiners and the Demarchist remnants of the glory days.
		Between long years in suspended animation during interstellar travel and advanced medicine, Clavain is still alive, though now an old man. While a Conjoiner, he has tended to stay aloof and has refused to participate in the Conjoiner inner circles, the Closed Council.
	www.nesfa.org /reviews/Olson/RedemptionArk.html (825 words)

	Interstellar ark - InfoSearchPoint.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		An interstellar ark is a conceptual space vehicle that some have speculated could be used to traverse the distances between galaxies.
		An interstellar ark could be either a generation ship or a sleeper ship.
		In light of the many generations that it would take to reach even our nearest neighboring star system, Alpha Centauri, further issues of the viability of such arks include:
	www.infosearchpoint.com /display/Interstellar_ark (366 words)

	Fermi's Paradox II: What's Blocking Galactic Civilization? Or Are We Just Blind To It? - UFO Evidence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This puzzle, known as the Fermi Paradox, has burned up a lot of cerebrum cycles when scientists tried to reconcile the lack of company with the expectation that there are many advanced alien societies
		One possible explanation is that interstellar travel is just too costly.
		Your intention is to get this modest interstellar ark to our nearest stellar neighbor in 50 years, which requires about 150 billion billion joules of energy.
	www.ufoevidence.org /documents/doc288.htm (812 words)

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