Before the Maxwell Empire Books

The beginning of writing the Maxwell Empire Books was four years before when I wrote on my blog about humans travelling to a distant planet and described the spaceship they would need. The blog posts are reproduced here.

Even before the blog posts of 2015 I had written plays about life in the Earth and Moon to use in my teaching of English as a second language in 2001.

The advantage of computers in assisting our memories is obvious from these pages. These files I found when I was contemplating how I began writing the Maxwell Empire Books.

In 2015 I wrote my ideas of how humans were going to spread to other solar systems.

Spaceship 2015 version

In 2015 the structure of the habitat was a cylinder 300 km long and 80 km in diameter made from steel 2 cm thick. The volume of steel required to make such a structure, which would consist of two cylinders, is a lot of steel. Comparing it to annual production in 2013 for the whole world we get that the annual production of steel is 2013 is not enough to produce a spaceship of this size.

This structure was required to take humans in an environment that could support them and the life necessary for that. It did not include all species. Actually it would have included very few species.

It would not be able to take all eight million species that make up Earth life. It is not feasible to use such a model to go to another planet.

Better thoughts

My thoughts improved and in 2019 were much more sensible and gave rise to the Maxwell Empire Books where robots are the reason we can in the future say “We are everywhere, man, we are everywhere.”

Hence we have the 2019 plan with robospaceships taking Earth DNA to future Earths.

The 2015 ideas

Sunday, 12 July 2015 14:54

Writing in 2001

Book/play