Resumo de Trip To Paradise - Arthur C. Clarke

A trip to the space imagines. You it would enter in a spaceship, it would anxiously wait the end of the countdown, would feel the monstrous pressure of the push created by the engines to obtain to free the ship of the gravity of the Land and after minutes of exposition to this force incrivel, you would only feel the freedom inebriante of zero gravity? that, exactly in times of space tourism to the SpaceShipOne style, still he would be something for few. But if the space was so acessivel how much I finish it to walk of a building, everything would move - and is *justamente isso*, that Vannevar engineer Morgan intends to move with its bolder project:the Space Elevator. E the history of such taken over on a contract basis is told in magnifica way for Arthur C. Clarke in ?the Sources it Paraiso?? Middle of Seculo XXII. The humanity has colonias in the moon and Mars. I pass through it space is very high, having ominous effect in the environment of our planet. The rockets are arriving the teoricos limits of performance. Projections indicate that the volume of I pass through space for them we proximos years will grow frightfully, generating always preceding a ecologica pressure and economy in the society, being able to stop the future development all? will be that the humanity arrived in a dead-end at the moment where would leave for the stars? At this moment of history, special ambassador Rajasinghe receives in its house in Taprobana an engineer from the Company from Terraquea Construction, the Dr. Vannevar Morgan, celebrity for having projected a bridge on the Strait of Gibraltar, between the Europe and the Africa. Rajasinghe, a man whose career was to help that the humanity to find the peace and that now only wants to rest in its native land, is curious for the interest of the engineer for its country?It will discover that Morgan wants to transform the placida Taprobana into the center of the Solar System, the place for a bridge for the stars? the Space Elevator? It imagines that you are in a geostationary satelite - those that are ?motionless? on a place of the Land. Now it goes down a handle of this satelite until superficie of the planet and it arrests it in the ground. It places a system to load things for this handle, as an elevator. Soon, now the space is so acessivel how much any place of the Land, to a low cost for passenger and without problems of pollution of the rockets? You must be thinking that he is impossivel, right? Absurd idea?Nothing of this, it is established in solida fisica, and in this exactly instant NASA starts to search the possibility of if constructing such system? Only that Morgan to be able to carry through this dream, it will have to face some adversities: the reluctance of its employers in if compromising to the project (as the Senator Collins), the incredulity of I mainly publish it in the concept (and of technician, as the Dr. Donald Bickerstaff) and but, the fact of that the unico place of the world where the elevator *pode* being construido had the particularitity of the terrestrial gravitational field is Sri Kanda, the Sacred Mountain of Taprobana, whose top is busy the Buddhist centuries for monges? that it has right I perpetuate to the land?e has people that they had defended this implacavelmente, as the Dr. Choam Goldberg/Parakarma. This not to count on the definitive adversary, the proper Nature, a honest adversary but implacavel, always made use if to proveitar of the errors and the arrogance of the human beings, as it demonstrated very well in 7 of November of 1940, with the Bridge of the Strait of Tacoma? At the same time that Morgan and its allies as Rajasinghe ambassador and the famous journalist Maxine Duval fight so that the Space Elevator if becomes reality, know the historia of Yakkagala, the surprising one and mysterious palacio of King Kalidasa, a parricidal king of epoca of Roman emperor Adriano that was determined to exactly create a sky in the land for itself and the influencethat the ticket of Sideronauta, an intelligent automatica aliengena sounding lead, had in the humanity?e all these histories if join if well moored coherent form and. In a time where science and the technology are seen as an enemy, ?the Sources of the Paraiso? are surprising cooling with the tecnologico optimism of Clarke - the technology can create problems, Clarke does not deny this, but also it is our unica weapon for decides them and to create a cleaner world, more just, a better world, a world where to have hope in tomorrow it is not an error but something pretty. Either with the description of the ?office of the future? (that already she is in ours day-by-day), either with the conception of the Space Elevator, Arthur C. Clarke in ?the Sources of the Paradise? in remembers that we can dream of incrivel, therefore to some times? incrivel to them is possible?

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