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The Millennial Project: Eight Easy Steps to Colonizing the Galaxy
All the land is under the thumb of one government or another, so simply purchasing land will do you no good. The one possible exception is Somalia, but then you'll be just another warlord, and the guys already there have more practice than you. You'll need to create new land.
Start by donating to focusfusion.org. If it works out (and things are looking good so far) then in five years we have commercial small-scale non-radioactive fusion reactors producing power at 1/50 the price of coal. As a backup, invest in polywell fusion, which will be a bit slower to develop but still good. From there you can take two routes:
For an even more speculative project, fund experiments on the Woodward Effect, which, if Einstein and Mach were right, could reduce launch costs to almost nothing and get us to Mars in a couple days, and Saturn in a week.
Since you're proposing a massive land purchase, perhaps you have massive funds to do this sort of thing. You could get your libertarian nation without hassling with legacy governments, and incidentally, save the world.
If you don't have the massive funds yourself, start a foundation and get a big group of people together to do it.
This picture is from the book The Millenial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps by Marshall T. Savage. Some of the calculations are wrong, but it is an interesting read. But you don't have to take my word for it.
Titan is Saturn's moon, and yes, its ice volcanoes are one of the coolest tectonic events in our solar system.
As far as we know, there aren't any solid diamonds at the center of anything. Diamonds are much lighter than metals and other heavy elements, and would not sink to the center of a planetoid. Perhaps some pre-supernova planets, but those wouldn't have any of the heavy elements necessary to support life. Once we are traveling between stars, it's the biogenetic substances--like water and unrefined carbon--that will be the most valuable and useful to mine. With space colonization it becomes a matter of sustaining the continuing expansion of life, not space ships, that is most important. Fortunately there is a lot of ice on moons like Europa, and plenty of other valuable minerals and metals in the asteroid belt. There has always been a frontier: cyberspace has come and gone as the lastest frontier: next comes a space station! Once we've colonized out to the asteroid belt, perhaps interplanetary cyberspace will become still another metaphysical frontier to be explored?
I'm not sure where I was going with all of that. It trips me out.
Have you read The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps? I think it would be right in line with your interests. It is the most mind-blowing book I have ever read, making NASA look like a bunch of idiots and literally turning galactic colonization into a rather common-sensical eight easy steps, beautiful in their simplicity. If you have a scientific mind, this book will make you trip hard balls of intellectual goodness. There's even a website carrying on the book's legacy by updating the material as new scientific insights arise.
The book The Millenial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps talks about a suit that is made from a material similar to lycra.
The anthology Armored has a bunch of stories about armored suits, and possible variations from those.
Imagine the suits to vary depending on mission and MOS. Infantry, navigation, logistics, engineering etc.
If we get all fancy, lets imagine that they are all made of smart matter, or quantum dots, or some sort of mix that allows high variability, adaptation, low weight, and lots of energy available to do the sort of stuff our hero would need doing.
Remember the utility fog in "Quantum Thief"? I imagine that these new suits would be pretty much like that, fast reaction times, not in the way unless needed, light, flexible and extremely expensive. Also, failure ought to be benign as to protect until rescued.
Check the book "The Next 500 Years" as well as "Colonizing the Galaxy".
Inevitable? No. Likely? In the next 500 years, perhaps.
That's not a "hyperloop." It's called a Mass Driver, and it is a trope of sci-fi for decades and also is extensively discussed in the Millennial Project by Marshall Savage.
If you think you are depressed by the Trump administration now, read this book and leave yourself feeling like you want to eat a shotgun blast over the things we should be doing and aren't.
The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps
IMHO nobody should call themselves a futurist until they have read this book.
The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps by Marshall T. Savage
http://www.amazon.com/Millennial-Project-Colonizing-Galaxy-Eight/dp/0316771635
2100-2150: Earth gets its first Skycycle...
(also known as 'Rotating skyhooks')
The Millenial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps proposed that inverted buildings were the way to go so that we wouldn't be taking away from our parks and making our view claustrophobic.
The twist is that it proposed building the cities on the ocean, so the inverted buildings would be underwater where you could see something. The cities would be power generating plants, shipping power back to the mainland in the form of hydrogen. The cities would also be training grounds for future spacefarers.
To add, to this, one of the ways for humanity to harness Sun's energy is a Dyson sphere. However, there are A LOT of technical challenges to overcome. A good book I read about some of the challenges and possible solutions to harvesting energy from the Sun is The Millenial Project.
Few will read this but I highly recommend reading 8 steps to colonize the Galaxy.
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