Millennial Project

by Marshall T. Savage

Book Overview

The blueprint for the future of the American Space Programme. This book is both an argument for why humankind has an obligation to explore and colonize our apparently lifeless universe, and a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316771635
• ISBN13: 9780316771634
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 508 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

One of the best books I ever read

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.

How Space Colonization IS Possible

This is a deeply inspiring book. Marshall Savage describes a series of steps to colonize our Milky Way Galaxy but also, at the same time, to clean up the Earth's ecosystems and feed (and bring energy resources to) the Earth's poor. The first step is "Aquarius" which involves building floating colonies on the tropical oceans -- colonies that use Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) to get enormous supplies of non-polluting, self-renewing electrical energy from the coldness of the ocean depths. In addition, this process raises huge quantities of nutrient-rich deep ocean water to the surface where (after the energy is extracted) it can be used for mariculture (ocean fish farming) to produce a variety of nutritious fish and sea vegetables.Using the resources (including the finances and crucial technologies) gained in "Aquarius," Savage next describes space launch systems using laser and mass-driver technologies. This step is called "Bifrost." Then he outlines how we can establish colonies in orbit (a step called "Asgard"). Then on to ecospheres on the Moon (called "Avallon"), creating an Earth-like atmosphere (or "terraforming) Mars (called "Elysium"), and so on to the processes that might be used eventually to send giant spaceships to nearby stars ("Galactia").This exciting book spawned "The First Millennial Foundation" (now called "The Living Universe Foundation"), an organization of people working to make this future pioneering the "high frontier" of space come true for humanity.It is well worth reading.

Beauty in the Dark....

Strange thing about this book- you are almost compelled to go out and form your own business exploiting the ideas contained within it. Of course, some of the ideas simply will not be done, such as the giant Earth based electromagnetic catapult for cargo transfer to orbit, but the ideas are so well presented that you know they COULD be done if the money and the will could be found. (The Lunar version of this catapult certainly could be done...) One of the most useful aspects of this book is the enormous list of references that one can look up, they give even the most obscure concepts a great deal of credibility. Marshall Savages most effective contribution to the study of space colonisation though, is that the homes one creates OUT THERE can be beautiful and functional at the same time. We don't have to live in Tuna Cans or Death Stars, we can create living breathing ecospheres that would tear your heart out to leave. A remarkable book. Please buy it. It deserves all the awards available!

Just an AMAZING book.

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.

A fascinating and visionary personal declaration

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.