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'dark Skies' Provides A Comprehensive And Balanced Assessment Of The Space Enterprise, Past, Present And Future. It Demolishes Widely-held Optimistic Assumptions About The Desirability Of Many Major Space Activities, Actual And Prospective. Most Consequentially, The Hiding-in-plain-sight Use Of Outer Space As A Corridor For Long-range Bombardment Has Increased The Probability Of Catastrophic Nuclear War. Contrary To The Widespread Claim That Sustainable Colonies On Other Celestial Bodies Are Necessary For Human Survival From Large-scale Disasters On Earth, This Work Shows That Colonization Itself Poses Many Severe Threats And Should Be Avoided. Instead An Earth-oriented Space Program Should Be Pursued.