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

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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.

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.

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.

This book is definitly a great inspiration for hope that there can be answers to mankinds problems. Over the years the deeper I have delved into the many problems we face such as overpopulation and ecological extinctions, the grimmer our future has seemed. But this book has been the one source I have found of a possible solution that actually seems attainable. Its the closest thing you can get to a anti-unabomber manifesto. This book has stirred up enough people that there is a growing foundation of members that has formed that is dedicated to further exploring the feasibility of trying to bring first step of the Millennial Project to reality.

This book is a must for anyone interested in futuristic writing. Savage has put together a stellar compilation of his plan for a sucessful human colonization of the stars. He begins by creating floating cities based around an efficient, enviromentally friendly, revenue generating power plant. He continues with a energy-efficient and easy method of achieving orbit, continues to the moon and then far-flung colonies. All of his examples are explained so that the average person can understand, and the advanced reader can verify his work. He proves his near-future plans to be feasible and sucessfully shows a reasonable lineage to his farther reaching plans. Interspersed with the text are example pictures, which although somewhat idealized, give the reader an excellent idea of what the future could look like.

Yes, it is. It is one of the best books I ever read. This is the book that actually gave me hope that Human Kind is not and will not coming to an end. It is the Scientifical and Technological answer to The Polution Problem and other Environmental Related Problems. Recycling is not enough. Boycoting is not enough. This book is a need to read book for anybody that cares about Mother Earth, that loved Star Trek, that believes Space Exploration/Habitation is one of the goals Humanity need to work on. Don't get too dissapointed when you find out that Marshall T Savage does not include ETs/Aliens into the picture. And regardless of what "true engineers" and "true scientists" will tell you, the tasks he describs are actually logical and MIGHT become reality (in one way or another) sometime soon... True Scientists are and Engineers are the ones that go after "impossible projects" and make them part of our every day REALITY. If you don't believe me, read a bit about Science History.... or Jules Verne.

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.