Talk:The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps

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I haven't read the book, but I don't see much in this article which justifies an "aviation" stub citiation. Should that be removed?

I read the book and I agree it has nothing to do with aviation. Also, although the book may lack a section on every single step required to achieve colonization of space, it does have the grand vision of an ultimate goal that NASA seems to be terrified of discussing for fear of revealing that they are Star Trek/Star Wars/Heinlein fans. If the single most powerful nation in the world can't take a millenium-long view, we will fail to achieve the goal. Heck, we can't even agree that we may totally devastate the Earth through climate change.

Indeed. I don't agree with some of Savage's philosophical stances, so to speak, but I definitely think we need to start planning for the longer term and colonizing space is an integral part of that—a viewpoint which is sorely underrepresented, in my opinion. Even if the steps we follow turn out to be very different, the book has described some very clever ideas, and (perhaps even more importantly) expressed a wonderful sense of enthusiasm and spirit of progress that seems to be missing from today's lethargic space programs. 164.55.254.106 19:10, 18 July 2006 (UTC)