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This review is from: The Next Ten Thousand Years (Hardcover)
Written in 1973, this classic is one of the first books written for a general audience that refutes many of the glaring errors of the doomsayers and presents a positive, balanced argument for the future of humanity (with facts, figures and formulas).
Authors such as Victor Koman with his Kings of the High Frontier and engineer-entreupeneurs like Dr. Robert Zubrin are those who, along with Berry, keep the hope of the new Frontier alive.
Topics covered include the terraforming of venus, faster than light travel, dyson spheres and a calm well reasoned explanation that even if he detonates his nuclear weapons, man cannot destroy life on earth permanently. Berry reasons therefore that we should stop wringing our hands and apply ourselves to planning for our future not only on earth but throughout the solar system.
On Sep 30, 2008, at 3:16 AM, Todd Jackson wrote:> 12,000 years of natural resources> (O'Neil's estimate, as I recall) from Mercury to the PlutoidsIIRC, in the High Frontier I believe he said something 14,000 years worth of stuff, at current growth rates (ca 1970's) in the asteroid belt alone...Cheers,RAH
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