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and societies will need to change to enact the Project. Defenders and the author himself maintain that one man writing one book cannot be expected to write out the entire course of human development over the next millennium, and that others more suited to the field of
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that gives a series of concrete stages the author believes will lead to interstellar colonization. Many specific scientific and engineering details are presented, as are numerous issues involved in
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Solaria – mine asteroids to create asteroid colonies and Asgard-like stations throughout the Solar System to create a
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as a first step to learning how to build ("grow") colonies in space using a method not unlike that used by living
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Savage, Marshall T., The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps, 2nd edition, 1994, p 363
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Savage, Marshall T., The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps, 2nd edition, 1994, p 73
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Hilbertz, W. H, et al., "Electrodeposition of Minerals in Sea Water: Experiments and Applications",
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and applying his concept of Cybertecture. They also would generate income to fund later steps.
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The Living Universe Foundation, previously known as the First Millennial Foundation, is an
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Foundation – constitute an organization convened to realize these destinies.
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The book has drawn some criticism in that while it is replete with details concerning
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Galactia – colonize beyond the Solar System, expand throughout the
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Aldrin, Buzz, "The Mars Transit System", Air & Space, Oct/Nov 1990, pp40-47
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is a book (published in 1992 and reprinted in 1994 with an introduction by
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to "create a living planet to sustain us" connected with Earth through
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and life in general, and also recommends the exponential growth of
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The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps
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The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps
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The "Eight Easy Steps" proposed by Savage are as follows:
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algae as a primary foodstuff, supplemented by seafood
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In the early stages of the Project, Savage recommends
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H, "Toward Cybertecture", 597:, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 94-113, July 1979 505:Closed Ecological Life Support System 7: 595:IEEE, Journal of Oceanic Engineering 25: 407:more or less based upon the book 341:and creating miniature ecologies. 319:Asgard – build a 314:Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 271:Aquarius – build 536:Ocean thermal energy conversion 1: 670:Space colonization literature 516:In-Situ Resource Utilization 376:heading to a level 3 on the 561:Prof. Wolf Hartmut Hilbertz 285:Prof. Wolf Hartmut Hilbertz 254:First Millennial Foundation 73:Space Colonization Advocacy 691: 18:Living Universe Foundation 92:Little, Brown and Company 32: 608:Progressive Architecture 511:Inflatable space habitat 347: – start 260:The steps of the project 500:Beam-powered propulsion 210:exploratory engineering 409:The Millennial Project 250:The Millennial Project 219: 645:Extraterrestrial life 650:Fictional technology 556:Terraforming of Mars 325:geosynchronous orbit 480:Engines of Creation 337:by doming over the 299:free-electron-laser 297:using ground-based 29: 665:Space colonization 425:space colonization 405:space colonization 230:exponential growth 214:space colonization 208:) in the field of 202:Marshall T. 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Index

Living Universe Foundation

Marshall T. Savage
English
Futurology
Little, Brown and Company
1992
1994
United States
Hardcover
ISBN
0-316-77165-1
OCLC
30319063
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
Marshall T. Savage
Arthur C. Clarke
exploratory engineering
space colonization
Malthusian
exponential growth
population
blue-green algae
sustenance
Fermi paradox
arcologies
oceans
corals
Prof. Wolf Hartmut Hilbertz

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