The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps Reprint Edition

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Presenting a step-by-step plan for exploring and colonizing space, a practical, coherent, yet visionary blueprint combines cutting-edge science, technological sophistication, and fact-based speculation for building self-contained environments in space, colonizing Mars, and much more. Simultaneous.

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Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Little Brown & Co; Reprint edition (August 1, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316771635
ISBN-13: 978-0316771634
Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1.5 x 9.2 inches
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Average Customer Review: 49 customer reviews
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I discovered this book in the library as a young ...

July 26, 2017

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I discovered this book in the library as a young impressionable kid, and seeing its realistic portrayal of how space colonization could be achieved was enthralling.

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Thomas A. Hanson

Marshall T Savage The Millennial Project Living Universe Foundation

August 6, 2010

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This is a remarkable book. It was published ca 1992, and it attracted a following of readers from around the world. The readership continues discussion and project activity at LUF Team on Yahoo. I recommend this book to anyone who shares a concern for the future of the Human Race. We live in a big Universe, with lots of room for Human exploration and settlement. It is vital to have such a well written and illustrated vision set to bring us Humans together to work toward realization of our potential. (th)

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I have bought this book for about 10 people over ...

March 5, 2016

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I have bought this book for about 10 people over the last few years, it has so many interesting ideas it should be required reading.

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I dream of the day something like this takes shape

November 1, 2015

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Hopefully someone with the combination of a vision for the cutest and the finances to invest picks this up!!! I dream of the day something like this takes shape!

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Loved this book

March 4, 2015

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Loved this book. The author has a strong understanding of the science behind the ideas he writes about, and is very good at making it accessible to the layman.

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November 20, 2014

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Fun book. It's mostly conjecture, but it's good to stretch the mind once in a while.

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Excellent Gift for someone interested in this topic.

February 27, 2015

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This was a gift.

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Just not worth it

July 6, 2001

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Savage has vision and thinks big, but unfortunately his book starts out bad and gets worse as he elaborates on a fantastically absurd plan for colonizing the entire Solar System in the next thousand years or so! The book gets better towards the end when Savage describes the colonization of the rest of the galaxy, because he brings up interesting points like why we're the only intelligent life in the universe (an argument I agree with) and how near-lightspeed travel would affect human timescales.
The main reason the first 75% of the book is a chore to get through is because Savage attempts to establish credibility with his audience by assertively providing all sorts of details on engineering design and economics with only sketchy references to a few pages of works in his huge bibliography.
And some of his technical ideas are simply ludicrous. As a sensible alternative to fuel-hungry rockets, he wants to send payload to space on gigantic ice cubes riding on high-powered lasers!! Also, as a remedy for human loss of bone and muscle in zero-gravity space, Savage suggests applying electric stimulation to ourselves on a daily basis and while we sleep! Finally, Savage lost all technical credibility with me when he vastly misjudged the distances in a scale model of Earth, the Moon, and Venus. If Earth is the size of a grapefruit, he claims Venus is something like 40 miles away. If he had done the simple math, he would have discovered that the farthest Venus gets on that scale is something like a couple miles away, and it gets as close as 1/3 mile away at inferior conjunction. He made a similar huge error on the Moon. Did anyone proofread this book?
Also, the Utopian economics of Savage's step-by-step plan are vastly underestimated. Each of his eight steps would consume the entire American work force for years. Add to this the fact that Savage is quite a poor writer (even though he majored in English) and you have a near-disaster on your hands. He makes all sorts of cliched remarks and tries to sound eloquent as if he's writing an epic poem or something (he even calls himself a bard at one point), but fails miserably in this regard. Just read the introduction for a fine example of this. I can't see why Arthur Clarke put his "seal of approval" on this work since it only lowers his credibility.
The one saving grace for this book is the last 25%, which makes for interesting hypothetical reading. Colonizing the galaxy is a topic likely to fire the imagination and Savage does an adequate job of making this part interesting. But the meat of the book, Savage's "plan" for escaping the "multiplying yeast in a bottle" that is people on Earth, is simply not worth your time.

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