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$0 eBook: The High Frontier - Human Colonies In Space

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US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CB3SIAI
AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B00CB3SIAI
by Gerard O'Neill and Donald Davis, 342 pages, published Apr 9, 2013

Amazon's Description:

In the early 1970s America had proved its leadership in Human Spaceflight but among the nation’s youth an anti-technology mindset was growing. Princeton Physicist and Professor Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill, inventor of the revolutionary Colliding-Beam Storage Ring technology that is now the basis of all high energy particle accelerators, asked his students if they could come up with a working Space Colony system to permanently and happily house tens of thousands of regular people. They dug into the challenge.

Soon his small band of students grew to scores of researchers both young and old, all united in the Big Dream of letting real people have a real choice in their futures.

In 1974, Dr. O’Neill put his three-pronged plan of Space Colonization, Space Solar Power and Large Scale Space Construction into easily accessible form with the release of the book The High Frontier. Fourteen years later, The Space Studies Institute, founded by O’Neill, re-released the original text, unchanged except for the doctor’s addition of the Appendix “A View from 1988.”

Now, The Space Studies Institute makes The High Frontier exclusively available electronically for Amazon Kindle owners.

This is one of the milestone and timeless classics of Space Habitation, Alternative Power and Human Potential, all made possible with technology we already have. A Must-Read.

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    Space colonies? What's next, Giant Robots?

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    Crazy. I just read this and bought it. It was worth the money. Free it's definitely worth getting and having a quick look at.

    It's a genuinely interesting book.

    It's really interesting because it gives you a physically possible way that people could live away from earth. O'Neil gives strong reasons why living on another planet doesn't make sense.

    The predictions of the future are impressively wrong, but that's useful as well. We're presumably just as bad now. The economic drive it presents for space habitation has not come to pass.

    Another book that's similar in that it's about physically possible space travel that we haven't explored is 'Project Orion' by George Dyson about nuclear powered spacecraft.

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