a few thoughts

[insolentmeddler]

this title has been sitting in my stack unread, and the other day I finally got around to reading it. Overall pretty good, amusing, and thought provoking. We've all engaged in existential mental exercises of this type from time to time, and it's a fine intellectual and philosophical workout.
a few things stuck out though. The basic premise has an undefined point that makes it difficult to appreciate the protagonists viewpoint. Specifically, we the audience dont know the criteria under which humanity has been deemed unworthy. We dont understand the data that went into making that judgement, nor the processes used to quantify and prioritize said data, and so we dont fully appreciate the motives. Makes it tough to identify with the character's decisions.
It is implied that humanity is destroying the planet and is too shortsighted to correct this, but is that the only reason? it's a fairly easy problem to correct, if you think about it. Therefore the reader must assume there must be more to it, but it's never really clarified.
Cold fusion is an interesting idea. It got a lot of press in the 50's, before it was rather vigorously shut down. We know it exists in the universe, but we cant seem to duplicate the process. Or so they say....
A few other clean fuel sources that have been demonstrably proven to work are
Hydrogen (Space shuttle 'Challenger')
Nitrogen
Compressed air
SVO
Permanent magnets (H. Henry Gary)
Overunity engine (Bearden)
Electric (Buckminster Fuller and Tesla, among others)
Gravity engine (Bruce Depalma)
There are a few books out on the subject, if you're interested