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Mon Apr 22, 2013, 01:46 PM Apr 2013

Free copy of O’Neill’s "The High Frontier" (until April 23)

http://blog.nss.org/?p=4065

Free copy of O’Neill’s “The High Frontier” (until April 23)



The Space Studies Institute is offering a free electronic copy of Professor Gerard K. O’Neill’s The High Frontier through Tuesday April 23. It’s a Kindle edition, but you don’t need a Kindle to read it. There is a free Kindle app to read it on computers, tablets, and smartphones. An Amazon account is required (also free).

In his classic 1977 book The High Frontier, O’Neill mapped out a straightforward, manifestly doable path to putting humans into space permanently and sustainably, using current-day material and know-how. His message is key to the NSS Vision of “People living and working in thriving communities beyond the Earth, and the use of the vast resources of space for the dramatic betterment of humanity.”

Free Kindle apps:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sv_kstore_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771

Free High Frontier Kindle edition:
http://www.amazon.com/The-High-Frontier-ebook/dp/B00CB3SIAI/

Due to the nature of the Amazon international download servers, the exact time of the end of the free offer cannot be guaranteed. Regular price for the new Kindle edition of the book is $6.99.

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Free copy of O’Neill’s "The High Frontier" (until April 23) (Original Post) bananas Apr 2013 OP
I do recommend reading "The High Frontier" LongTomH Apr 2013 #1
Thanks! (NT) reACTIONary Apr 2013 #2

LongTomH

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1. I do recommend reading "The High Frontier"
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 06:30 PM
Apr 2013

I still have a hardcover copy of the first printing from 1976. This is truly an historical work.

Gerry O'Neill was way ahead of his time. People talking about space colonization today have gone back to the old 40s-50s concepts of domed cities on Mars instead of O'Neill's high orbit colonies.

O'Neill's original intuition is still valid; high orbit has big advantages:

  1. 24 hour solar energy,
  2. room for expansion, and
  3. you don't have to climb up and down a gravity well to get anywhere.
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