The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (909 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0688031331 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This expanded third edition features a new preface, introduction, and collection of essays by space researchers.
Outstanding, a must-have for every reader. This book is amazing. This 3rd edition has two parts: the first is the original text by the late Gerard O'Neil, one of the great visionaries of the 20th century. Though things did not develop in the time scale he hoped for, his message is as valid today as it was in 1980 -- or even more so. The second part of the book is a series of chapters by contemporary leaders in the ae. "Excellent book on practicality of space colonization" according to Brooke P. Anderson. THE HIGH FRONTIER is an excellent book on the practicality andeconomics of the human colonization of space -- very entertaining toread and full of interesting technical information. It is the classic work on the subject -- highly regarded by folks such as Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, and Thomas Paine (former administrator of NASA). When this influential book was first published. Nuts And Bolts The author explains the nuts and bolts of creating a colony in space that would orbit the Earth. He's seems to have thought everything from growing food to feed the colonist to creating electricity to power the colony.
O’Neill, PhD, was a faculty member of the physics department at Princeton University. He founded the Space Studies Institute and invented the storange ring technique for colliding particle beams.. Gerard K
But O'Neill died in 1992 seeing humanity no closer to fulfilling his bold vision. Freeman Dyson points out in a new introduction to this edition that in many ways we've actually backslided, that the International Space Station (and the current role of NASA) is "not a step forward on the road to the High Frontier. It's a big step backward, a setback that will take decades to overcome." But O'Neill's idea of pursuing an inexhaustible energy supply (solar power in space) and endless room to expand remains tantalizingly attractive. O'Neill published the first edition of High Frontier back in the mid 1970s (just four years after "Rocket Ma