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About meAbdul Ahad is a British-Asian astronomer and science fiction writer. He is the author of the bestselling series of novels entitled First Ark to Alpha Centauri. In that publication, he envisioned what is now being widely regarded as the world’s first life-like human colony starship and spaceflight concept for sending a community of people from our planet to the nearest stars via a multi-generational voyage. The first volume in the series was published in 2005 and its story theme is a mixture of nightmarish horror, a little romance and some science. Be sure to check it out on Amazon.com or a bookstore near you soon!

On May 1st 2007, on the environment forum , Ahad proposed an initiative that we could terraform the vast Sahara desert economically, by utilising inexpensive solar energy in an effort to combat the currently accelerating global warming. The post was titled ‘Terraform the Sahara to Reverse Global Warming’, wherein he set out the details of a long term planetary engineering program. He pointed to harnessing the free energy from the Sun to desalinate water in the Mediterranean Sea and then to irrigate it into the African continental interior via pipelines, that could water an incrementally growing forestry project. Since desalination calls for vast amounts of electricity, it could be feasible to source it from the Sun by utilising large scale solar arrays as a power source. According to his personal experience of using solar panels for domestic use, Ahad extrapolated that a one square kilometer solar array would output at least 69 mega-watts of power, which will be perpetually *free* (virtually zero cost), once the initial set-up costs have been absorbed. By “greenifying” the 3.5-million square miles of desert into an ecologically friendly rain forest over a number of decades, ample growable land would be made available for conservation of nature and preserving endangered animal species. Those would be additional side benefits to the main focus of improving the global oxygen/CO2 balance, he pointed out, to reduce the runaway greenhouse effect. Ahad estimated a planet-wide temperature drop of some 5° celsius would result from such a project, based on the equivalent differences of current temperatures in the arid Sahara region compared to the average temperatures of cooler, rain forested parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

Elsewhere, much of Abdul Ahad’s intellectual musings have transcended the earth and are set in the heavens by nature of his love affair with the night sky. In July of 2004, he published a paper under the colourful heading: “The Music of the Night Sky”, in which he sought to quantify the brightness of the universe in its totality extending out to the infinite. He did this by integrating the minute amounts of flux from each and every single speck of light visible across the celestial sphere. The paper’s asymptotic result of c. -6.5 magnitudes net (~ 1/300ths of a Full Moon’s worth of light) has since been canonically christened “Ahad’s Constant” in the scientific community. This quantity, along with a related theorem known as “Ahad’s Sphere” of the Sun, have both been named to his credit.
As of May of 2008, Ahad earnt an Honorary Membership Award from Bangladesh Astronomical Society in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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