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THE HIGH FRONTIERReviewed 7/28/2014 |
| THE HIGH FRONTIER Gerard K. O'Neill New York: William Morrow & Company, 1977 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-688-03133-6 | ||||
| ISBN 0-688-03133-1 | 288pp. | HC/BWI | $19.95 | |
Dr. O'Neill was a professor of physics at Princeton University when in 1975 he asked his summer students a challenging question: Is Earth's surface the proper place for [industrial civilization]?.
The students concluded that it is not. But they did more. They figured out practical possibilities of moving that industry out into space, where abundant energy flows from the Sun 24/7 and where construction materials from the Moon and asteroids allow the high cost of lifting them out of Earth's gravity well to be bypassed.
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