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The next ten thousand years;: A vision of man's future in the universe (Unknown Binding)
by Adrian Berry (Author)
  4.7 out of 5 stars 3 customer reviews (3 customer reviews)  

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  • Unknown Binding: 250 pages
  • Publisher: Saturday Review Press; [distributed by] E. P. Dutton; [1st ed.] edition (1974)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0841503028
  • ISBN-13: 978-0841503021
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars 3 customer reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,814,989 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Julian Simon would be proud, December 25, 1999
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This review is from: The Next Ten Thousand Years (Hardcover)
Written in 1973, this classic is one of the first books written for a general audience that refutes many of the glaring errors of the doomsayers and presents a positive, balanced argument for the future of humanity (with facts, figures and formulas).

Authors such as Victor Koman with his Kings of the High Frontier and engineer-entreupeneurs like Dr. Robert Zubrin are those who, along with Berry, keep the hope of the new Frontier alive.

Topics covered include the terraforming of venus, faster than light travel, dyson spheres and a calm well reasoned explanation that even if he detonates his nuclear weapons, man cannot destroy life on earth permanently. Berry reasons therefore that we should stop wringing our hands and apply ourselves to planning for our future not only on earth but throughout the solar system.

Finally, how can you resist a book that includes an appendix entitled: 'A do-it-yourself Guide to the Special Theory of Relativity' that explains Einstein's theory of near light speed travel in less than three pages with the correct math in a way even I can understand?

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Adrian Berry deftly lays out a well reasoned vision., October 24, 1998
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This review is from: The Next Ten Thousand Years (Paperback)
This book widens our perspective with serious extrapolation of our current growth in physics, chemistry, economics. Berry delightfully presents alternative ways to terraform Venus (seeding the atmosphere with blue-green algae). Then he discusses plans for Mars, and moves on to the biggest challenge to our future economy...no less than the dismantling of Jupiter and Saturn to build a "Dyson Sphere". Berry presents a fair assessment of the growth of Man's global, then inner solar system economies, and some insight into the politics of building such a sphere. Overall, a grandiose vision of the future which one keeps wishing to reread every so often. --dcm
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4.0 out of 5 stars more a look into the past, May 8, 2003