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Title: "Habitable Planets for Man" an e-book PDF
Post by: jfelten on January 30, 2009, 06:43:46 AM

"Habitable Planets for Man" by Stephen H. Dole

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_boo ... B179-1.pdf (http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/2007/RAND_CB179-1.pdf)

Title: Re: "Habitable Planets for Man" an e-book PDF
Post by: The Shadow on April 16, 2010, 03:23:54 AM

Oh hey, I used to have a hard copy of that!  Good to see they've got it online.

It's fairly out of date now, but I found Dole's approach to solving the hugely complex interrelated problems of planetology very enlightening.  It's well worth a read.