2021 Two Elephants in the Room of Astrobiology
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119711186.ch10

Video and radar data, together with recent actions taken by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Senate in the United States (U.S.), indicate that the U.S. government knows that unidentified ariel phenomena (UAP) and unidentified submerged objects (USOs) are real and most likely are of extraterrestrial origin. This is referred to as the extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH), which, broadly, argues that an extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) representing an extraterrestrial civilization (ETC) is operating these objects.

Astrobiologists should pay attention to this data and should bring their considerable scientific expertise to bear in analyzing it.

Relatedly, astroethicists must actively oppose any attempts to use the reality of UAP, USOs, and the Intelligent Beings—most likely ETI—responsible for their operation on and around Earth—collectively, the phenomenon—as pretext to rationalize the militarization and weaponization of space. To ensure that space be maintained as a peaceful arena free of international conflict and to facilitate international, scientific cooperation in astrobiology, astroethicists actively must engage in the formulation of a space policy that is cooperative and constructive. Astrobiologists should create a robust, ethics‐based community to oppose the militarization and weaponization of space and to engage in an open‐minded manner with the reality of the phenomenon and any ETI and ETC responsible for it.

2021 Astrobiology: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119711186

Astrobiology is an exploding discipline in which not only the natural sciences, but also the social sciences and humanities converge. Astrobiology: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy is a multidisciplinary book that presents different perspectives and points of view by its contributing specialists. Epistemological, moral and political issues arising from astrobiology, convey the complexity of challenges posed by the search for life elsewhere in the universe. We ask: if a convoy of colonists from Earth make the trip to Mars, should their genomes be edited to adapt to the Red Planet’s environment? If scientists discover a biosphere with microbial life within our solar system, will it possess intrinsic value or merely utilitarian value? If astronomers discover an intelligent civilization on an exoplanet elsewhere in the Milky Way, what would be humanity’s moral responsibility: to protect Earth from an existential threat? To treat other intelligences with dignity? To exploit through interstellar commerce? To conquer?

2021 Astroethics for earthlings: Our responsibility to the galactic commons
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119711186.ch2

The Astroethics of Responsibility proposed here is founded on a substructure of quandary‐responsibility ethics, supported by a theological notion of the common good plus a naturalistic justification for response and care. Within the sphere of the solar neighborhood, ten already articulated quandaries are addressed:
(1) planetary protection;
(2) intrinsic value of off‐Earth biospheres;
(3) application of the Precautionary Principle;
(4) space debris;
(5) satellite surveillance;
(6) weaponization of space;
(7) scientific versus commercial space exploration;
(8) terraforming Mars;
(9) colonizing Mars; and
(10) anticipating natural space threats.

Within the sphere of the Milky Way metropolis in which the “galactic common good” becomes the astroethical norm, engagement with intelligent extraterrestrials is analyzed within three categories: (1) ETI less intelligent than Earth's Homo sapiens; (2) ETI equal in intelligence; and (3) ETI superior in intelligence. Superior ETI may come in both biological and postbiological forms. Our ethical mandate: respond with care

Space, Time, and Aliens | SpringerLink
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-41614-0

Includes more than 40 papers written by a former NASA Chief Historian

Analyzes topics in cosmology and astronomy from an interdisciplinary lens

Covers all ongoing, major themes in the new field of philosophy of astronomy

2018 Astrobiology, Discovery, and Societal Impact
https://www.amazon.com/Astrobiology-Discovery-Societal-Impact-Cambridge/dp/110842676X

The search for life in the universe, once the stuff of science fiction, is now a robust worldwide research program with a well-defined roadmap probing both scientific and societal issues. This volume examines the humanistic aspects of astrobiology, systematically discussing the approaches, critical issues, and implications of discovering life beyond Earth. What do the concepts of life and intelligence, culture and civilization, technology and communication mean in a cosmic context? What are the theological and philosophical implications if we find life - and if we do not? Steven J. Dick argues that given recent scientific findings, the discovery of life in some form beyond Earth is likely and so we need to study the possible impacts of such a discovery and formulate policies to deal with them. The remarkable and often surprising results are presented here in a form accessible to disciplines across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

2021 ASTROCULTURE AND UFOLOGY
https://zenodo.org/record/5573758/files/Astroculture.pdf?download=1

This article examines a new concept that has recently emerged from the contributions of the German
historian Alexander C.T. Geppert, for whom a series of hetereogeneous cultural elements, but related to they
Space Age, can be grouped into a single field of historical study, which he calls Astroculture. After reviewing the traditional links between the Space Race and ufology, the paper analyzes how the latter can be inserted into Astroculture, and the consequences that would follow.

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Why Climate Breakdown Matters: : Why Philosophy Matters Rupert Read Bloomsbury Academic
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/why-climate-breakdown-matters-9781350212039/

Rupert Read asks us to face up to the fate of the planet. This is a book for anyone who wants their philosophy to deal with reality and their climate concern to be more than a displacement activity.

As people come together to mourn the loss of the planet, we have the opportunity to create a grounded, hopeful response. This meaningful hopefulness looks to the new communities created around climate activism. Together, our collective mourning enables us to become human in ways previously unknown.

Rupert reads the preface of his latest book, 'WHY CLIMATE BREAKDOWN MATTERS' | Norwich UK |
https://youtu.be/mSwUNYM8Uq0

2022 The Story of Humanity: Ecology & Consequence
https://www.amazon.com/Story-Humanity-Ecology-Consequence/dp/194862723X/

The Story of Humanity: Ecology & Consequence is the tale of humanity, from hominid emergence to their self-extinction.

The Story appears to be written by alien scholars long after Earthers were gone. From its preface, The Story seems to be science fiction. It is instead history and prophesy.

The Story is a saga of misadventure from a remarkably adaptable creature. The book chronicles how and why men wiped themselves out.

The thematic core of the book is psychology. The Story highlights the junctures at which men had the wrong concept and so made the wrong move

2022 Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values through Space Settlement
https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Mars-Transforming-through-Settlement/dp/0700633901

The goal of sending humans to Mars is becoming increasingly technologically feasible, but the prospect of space colonization raises important questions about civilizational ethics and collective morality. History shows how destructive colonialism has been, resulting in centuries-long struggles to achieve liberation from the violent competition for land and resources by colonial powers. Space settlement poses the same temptation on a cosmic scale, with commercial actors and government space agencies doing the work previously carried out by European empires. The question is whether humans will take a different approach in this new frontier.

In Sovereign Mars, astrobiologist Jacob Haqq-Misra argues that settling Mars offers humankind a transformative opportunity to avoid the mistakes of the past by “liberating Mars” as a sovereign planet from the start. Rather than see space as a way to escape human problems on Earth, Mars presents humanity with a challenge to address these problems by thinking carefully about the theory and practice of civilization. Drawing on past examples of cooperative sovereignty, such as the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, the United Nations Law of the Sea Conventions, and the Antarctic Treaty System, Haqq-Misra begins a conversation about governance in space well in advance of the first arrival of humans on Mars and makes the case for an analogous approach to space that will preserve the space environment and benefit future generations.

Haqq-Misra examines the emergence of sovereignty in space through the lens of historical precedent on Earth and develops models of shared governance that could maximize the transformative potential of Mars settlement. Sovereign Mars proposes the planet would serve humankind best as an independent planetary state, a juridical peer to Earth, to enable new experiments in human civilization and develop a pragmatic model for shared governance on Mars.

TUHO: TADEAS

TUHO: The planetarity of computation forms what I have called an “accidental megastructure” comprised of overlapping functional layers. Quite literally, it is a stack extending down to the mines of central Africa through subterranean data centers and transoceanic cables to interlaced urban networks up to the glowing glass rectangles through which we view it and it views us. Planetary-scale computation is not virtual. It is a kind of terraforming of its host planet.
To measure the weight of planetary-scale computation includes a sober reckoning with the physical costs of its sprawling infrastructures, which includes differentiating essential purpose from the trivial, and ultimately pondering the price of intelligence itself. In the context that really matters most, the cultivation of synthetic intelligences capable of collaboration with our own most virtuous ambitious and virtuoso expressions is precious. The syntheses they portend are available only if we pursue them with resolve and clarity about their high costs.