The millennial project
by Marshall T. Savage · first published 1992
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Really, really good book on this subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project:_Coloniz... http://www.amazon.com/Millennial-Project-Colonizing-Galaxy-E... The book does a nice job of capturing all the hard engineering problems. His proposed solutions are interesting but a bit…
on “How hard is space travel, in principle?” ↗This is an older, but very practical and educational read: http://smile.amazon.com/Millennial-Project-Colonizing-Galaxy...
on “SpaceX is launching an inflatable space habitat” ↗Two things: 1) Check out "The Millennial Project": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project:_Coloni... > The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps by Marshall T. Savage is a book (published in 1992 and reprinted…
on “A Visualization of Galactic Settlement” ↗…the end comes eventually. The internal volume of the "known universe" will eventually produce people faster than they can escape to unpopulated regions even if they have FTL spaceships. - - - - "The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps" by Marshall T. Savage has a wonderfully inspiring image of a green galaxy on the cover: humanity has brought life to the stars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project
on “Are we too many people or too few?” ↗The Millennial Project, Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project Not a fiction book as such, but the subject matter border on science fiction. It did make me think of…
on “Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?” ↗…have surprises in store. I do love the idea of a little self-contained ecosystem, almost like a space colony. I hope people do a lot more experiments along these lines. One idea from Marshall Savage's Millennial Project is edible algae, like spirulina. According to him it's absurdly productive in a small space, and the numbers from the "algae for fuel" people seem to bear that out. A turnkey system for producing it safely…
on “Why vertical farms are a crock.” ↗https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project > "The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps" by Marshall T. Savage is a book (published in 1992 and reprinted in 1994 with an introduction by Arthur C. Clarke) in the field of…
on “The global fertility rate is falling” ↗…really useful and important to go: micro-gravity manufacturing; robotic asteroid mining; science... I hope we can live in space, I want to colonize the galaxy. (The green galaxy on the cover of "The Millennial Project" book is one of the more compelling images I've personally ever seen. A photosynthesizing galaxy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennial_Project:_Coloni... ) But even if we can't go at all these…
on “Elon Musk’s plan to build one Starship a week and settle Mars” ↗