The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy-In 8 Easy Steps [Paperback]

Marshall T. Savage (Author), Keith Spangle (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Paperback: 514 pages
• Publisher: Empyrean Pub (February 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963391496
• ISBN-13: 978-0963391490
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,650,022 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just an AMAZING book., December 16, 1999

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Demon (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy-In 8 Easy Steps (Hardcover)

I am 14 years old, and the book was well written enough for me to understand completely. It inspires all sorts of hope in the idea that humans could get out into space one day. If any of the ideas Savage presents are possible, then maybe our planet is not as doomed as we may think.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating and visionary personal declaration, September 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy-In 8 Easy Steps (Hardcover)

Marshall Savage is a true visionary. In defense of his scheme to colonize the galaxy, he presents an astonishing wealth of fascinating information, conveniently available nowhere else. The prose style is engagingly un-scholarly. A fun, curious, conversation-starting book. The foundation actually exists, and when I last checked, they were trying to purchase land in the Bahamas to start an ocean thermal energy plant.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Engineering Science and the Mellenial Project, February 7, 2003

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"gestech" (Calhan, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy-In 8 Easy Steps (Paperback)

I am a mechanical and structural consulting engineer. While I found this book to be quite entertaining and at times downright amusing, I also found it to be completely impractical from a scientific point of view. If the purpose of reading it is to provide entertainment, and possible stimulation to imagination, I have less problems with the text. If the purpose is to actually research practical enginering systems that purport to acomplish the tasks claimed in the book, then there are major problems. From ocean colonies powered by OTEC to the space lanuch systems, engineering and science does not support the authors claims to even a limited extent. While the colonization of space is a noble goal and one that humans hopefully will reach some day, the engineering systems and general science described in this book is not going to be the method or means to achieve that end.