The Ark will take the form of “arklet” vessels small enough to avoid the debris from the Moon. Every country draws lots for a small group of its young people to join the Ark. This Ark may be a means of preserving the human race and preventing worldwide chaos. As a result of Harris’s calculations, a decision is made to build a “Cloud Ark” that will evacuate 1,500 of the Earth’s people. The Earth’s atmosphere will become so hot, the oceans will boil away and the planet will become inhospitable to life. Within two years, those fragments will form what he calls a “Hard Rain” of meteors that will burn up in the atmosphere. Soon, smaller fragments of the Moon will enter the Earth’s atmosphere. The fragments collide with each other, and astronomer “Doc” Dubois Harris explains that the collisions will increase. An unknown phenomenon causes the Moon to shatter into seven pieces.
The novel is set sometime in the near future, though the exact date is not specified. His other notable works include Snow Crash and The Diamond Age.
Stephenson is an American writer known for his works of science fiction, steampunk, and cyberpunk. Humankind must enter space to find a new means of survival. The story is this: after an unexplained event shatters the Moon into fragments, the Earth becomes uninhabitable. He calls this the "white sky.Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves is a hard science fiction novel published in 2015. It's the reason some scientists fear the buildup of space junk in orbit around Earth could become so severe that it eventually becomes impossible to launch satellites or rockets through the chaos, wiping out satellites and cutting us off from the universe beyond our planet.ĭubois calculates that approximately two years after the moon's breakup, the skies will become inaccessible, with the material that comprised the former moon becoming a massive cloud or ring around the planet. This runaway scenario is what real-world physicists call the Kessler effect or Kessler syndrome. The White Skyĭubois realizes that as each large moon fragment crashes into another, more and more moon fragments will be created, increasing the probabilities of further collisions.
Along with scientists around the world, one of the story's protagonists - a science-popularizing astrophysicist named Dubois Jerome Xavier Harris, Ph.D., or "Doc Dubois" - realizes the significance of this collision. However, one massive fragment (referred to as Scoop) smashes into another (Kidney Bean), splitting it into smaller parts. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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