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Title: The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps by Marshall T. Savage ISBN: 0-316-77163-5 Publisher: Little Brown & Co Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (43 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is going to blow your socks off!!!
Comment: When I bought this book, I had no idea what I was in for. Savage explains detail to detail about the construction of floating ocean cities, with unlimited power from the oceans. These islands might save Earth in the future. He describes a space launch system that can be much faster and cheaper than current launch systems. He makes the colonization of space very easy, using materials from the Asteroids and the Moon, to support a population of 7.5 quadrillion. This is not science fiction. Everything stated in this book has been tested in the laboratory. Order this NOW!!!!
Rating: 3
Summary: Society's seat in Savage's awesome vision?
Comment: Marshall T. Savage has packaged the technical details of constructing a spacefaring civilization in an attractive gift box with a little pink bow on top. Yet in his giddy, high-spirited trot to convince his readers of the bountiful treasures that await us on unexplored planets and wobbling asteroids, he overlooked one fundamental detail: How will we get there? Humanity's technological capabilities, boundless as they may appear, are not enough to carry us to the stars. We must overcome Earth's gravity well with cold technological prowess, but our social and political trajectories constrain us with equal weight.
My trouble with Savage's vision is that he spends too much time telling us that we will live in orbiting beach balls the size of Maryland, at the bottoms of moon craters, and in the hollow cavities of spinning comets. Over and over again we are explicitely told where we will live and what the ships will look like that ferry us to and fro. It seems to me that the more difficult analysis is in explaining how this vision will unfold for us on a sociopolitical level. How will internal conflicts be handled? In unforgiving alien environments where the learning curve is bound to be steep, will his societies remain malleable and capable of adaptation? How? Savage is thick on mechanical engineering but thin on social engineering.
Rating: 1
Summary: An Engieers Review
Comment: I AM an Engineer, structural, mechanical and power systems. Mr. Savage clearly is NOT an Engineer. This book is entertaining and at times amusing but as a "plan" to colonize space, it violates every principle of physics that is related to environmentat science and orbital mechanics, to mention a few. In a more practical sense, the plan violates basic priciples of engineering science, from the floating islands powered by OTEC to cheap launch capabilities. In the case of the OTEC claims (offshore thermal ennergy conversion), there is a significant issue that touches on recent articles in 'Nature' (to mention only one source). The thermodynamics of ocean circulation patterns are apparently being affected even today by humankinds activities. Drawing vast quantities of energy from the temperature differentials that exist today would run a serious risk of upsetting this delecate balance. The consequences of tapping these thermal sources on an enormous scale could be catastrophic to our ecology. Mr. Savage also runs aground on the engineering diciplins of Material Science, Dynamics, Mechanics, Structures (tidal waves, wind), and Power Systems. The extensive scientific references, purporting to reinforce the claims in this book, do not actually do so since Mr. Savages' extrapolations of the referenced material do not remain consistent from an engineering perspective. While I found the book to be generally well written, I also found myself marking large sections and sometimes entire chapters as "impossible".
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Title: Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization by Robert Zubrin ISBN: 1585420360 Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 03 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space (Apogee Books Space Series) by Gerard K. O'Neill, Freeman J. Dyson ISBN: 189652267X Publisher: Collectors Guide Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space by Stanley Schmidt, Robert Zubrin ISBN: 0471135615 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 25 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century by John Brockman ISBN: 0375713425 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 14 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Interstellar Travel and Multi-Generational Space Ships (Apogee Books Space Series) by Yoji Kondo, Frederick Bruhweiler, John Moore, Charles Sheffield ISBN: 1896522998 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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