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| THE CASE FOR MARS: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must Robert Zubrin with Richard Wagner New York: The Free Press, 1996 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-684-82757-5 | ||||
| ISBN 0-684-82757-3 | 328pp. | HC/BWI | $25.00 | |
| Page 24: | "Kepler catapulted the status of humanity in the universe." |
| Misuse of the verb "catapulted". The sentence should describe how the status of humanity was catapulted, or where it was catapulted to (e.g. upwards). |
| Page 25: | "Utilizing on observations made between 1777 and 1783, William Herschel... " |
| Should be "Utilizing observations" |
| Page 31: | "The Viking landers also carried an X-ray florescence instrument capable of assessing the elemental composition of the soil..." |
| Should be "fluorescence". "Florescence" is a word; but it means the act of blooming or flowering. |
| Page 33: | "...after years of laboratory work trying to duplicate our work by non biological means..." |
| Should be "non-biological". |
| Page 38: | "They will be able to do this, because with their new material and compact configuration {...} the balloons will be strong enough..." |
| One comma misplaced, another missing. Should be "this because, with their new material and compact configuration {...}, the balloons will be strong enough" |
| Page 77: | "Figure 4.2 Trajectory Options to Mars: (A) Hohmann transfer orbit; (B) Fact Conjunction mission; (C) Opposition mission." |
| Should be "Fast Conjunction". |
| Page 84: | "...but because their orbits will loop well out beyond Mars actually would take the crew to take longer to get home..." |
| Should be "their orbits which will loop well out beyond Mars". |
| Page 97: | "...between its midcourse correction, Mars orbit propulsion maneuver system, and landing propellant..." |
| Should be "Mars orbit maneuver propulsion system". |
| Page 114: | "One of leading dragons barring the path to Mars..." |
| Should be "One of the leading dragons". |
| Page 132: | "...millions of tons of Martian surface material has been blasted off the surface of the Red Planet..." |
| Should be "have been". |
| Page 140: | "We have found some on Earth, called bacterial stromatelites, that date back 3.7 billion years..." |
| Should be "stromatolites". |
| Page 200: | "Pure iron, very strong, will be left in mold, while the carbon monoxide will be released..." |
| Should be "in the mold". |
| Page 220: | "...tightly bound oxides such as silicon dioxide (SiO2), ferrous oxide (Fe2O3), Magnesium oxide (MgO), and alumina oxide (Al2O3)..." |
| Should be "aluminum oxide". |
| Page 257: | "...and How does the answer play out in our model?" |
| Should be "how". |
| Page 284: | "For this reason their staffs are top heavy with layer after layer of useless, high-priced 'matrix managers' (who manage nothing), 'marketeers (who do no marketing), and 'planners' (whose plans are never used), and whose sole apparent function is to add to company overhead." |
| Add hyphen to "top-heavy"; remove highlighted "and". |
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