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    An Expert's Quick Guide to Planetary Travel
    An Expert's Quick Guide to Planetary Travel
    An Expert's Quick Guide to Planetary Travel
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    An Expert's Quick Guide to Planetary Travel

    By Steve Matthew Benner

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    A person that has been to many worlds during his travels in the export/import business has written a tongue-in-cheek guide for those people who may be wanting to travel to another world. He describes some of the conditions a traveler from Earth can encounter on a different planet. These include such things as a difference in gravity, weather, atmosphere, fauna, and flora, geology, daily and yearly cycles, and sunlight. He takes a somewhat humorous approach to his subject and doesn’t show much sympathy for what he refers to as “moles” or those who have not been off world. Still it should be required reading for those planning a trip to another planetary system.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve Matthew Benner
    Release dateOct 14, 2014
    ISBN9781310092657
    An Expert's Quick Guide to Planetary Travel
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    Steve Matthew Benner

    Dr. Steve M. Benner received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Ohio State University in 1979 and has worked in industry, academia, and the federal government. He retired from NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland in 2016 after 28 years of service. He has written numerous scientific articles as well as several articles on ancient history. Dr. Benner's extensive knowledge of science and history has led to his having an ego the size of New Jersey and may account for his being one of the most self-centered people in America today.

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      An Expert's Quick Guide to Planetary Travel - Steve Matthew Benner

      An Expert’s Quick Guide to Planetary Travel

      Steve Matthew Benner

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      Copyright Steve M. Benner 2014

      Chapter 1: My Best Quality is My Modesty

      I have decided that, as one of the most widely traveled individuals in this section of the galaxy, I should put down some of my experiences and knowledge for posterity. The loss of my extensive knowledge and experience, should a fatal mishap befall me, would be considered by some to be equivalent to the burning of the library at Alexandria. So, to forestall this great calamity, I am documenting my experiences with extra-planetary travel to serve as a guide to those moles who would like to try interstellar travel or who desire to experience travel through the eyes of others. I should mention that the term moles is used to refer to those individuals who have never traveled to another planet and is used here in the most positive sense of the word.

      Thanks to my profession as an exporter/importer, sometimes referred to by small-minded people as smuggler, I have been lucky enough to travel to a wide variety of planets, either for pleasure or business or both. This profession of mine may be dangerous, but it can also be very rewarding. If you are not disintegrated during a hyperspace jump, smashed by a wayward planetoid, compressed into a singularity by a black hole, vaporized by a nova, or maligned by any of the thousands of natural phenomenon that populate the universe, then you can still be arrested by authorities to be locked away forever, blown out of the sky by pirates, crash into a planet as a result of an equipment malfunction, be sliced into sushi in a bar fight, or die by any number of manmade disasters. However, the benefits can be very rewarding, hence the reason there is no shortage of people

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