I don't think these kind of colonies would be effective without a strong shield like the earth atmosphere and magnetic field, and the ability to take a hit from a high speed space object.
Space Colony Art from the 1970s
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#32People raised in Space are going to wonder what we found so enticing about living dirtside, "Fun to visit, but why anyone lives like that is beyond me. We have perfect weather, a beautiful environment, and we're already halfway to anywhere we want to go."
Well, a snowstorm can be beautiful, perfect weather - to feel alive. A sunny beach is nice. But all day, every day? Boooring. I like to travel. I like to see new things, experience new situations - a small space station where I would have to live forever, I would consider a hell in prison. Unless that space station travels around the planets ... where you can visit and explore them ..
Presumably the station would orbit earth, and so you'd just wait until you were over the place you wanted to visit and then head down to earth for a week, and the trip would be the same hassle no matter where you were going!
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#33Oh man - I feel a lot of history with these images - they actually inspired one of the first online businesses I tried to make. I wanted to put one of these images on my wall, but they were niche enough that I couldn't find anybody selling them. I printed one myself using Zazzle, but then I started thinking that it would be cool to create a place where anybody could share cool niche images they found and have them au…
Cool site! Just ordered an awesome poster of the star-birthing region in the Orion Nebula (https://postercoop.com/posters/45/).
Thanks for building and sharing your project.
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#34Oh man - I feel a lot of history with these images - they actually inspired one of the first online businesses I tried to make. I wanted to put one of these images on my wall, but they were niche enough that I couldn't find anybody selling them. I printed one myself using Zazzle, but then I started thinking that it would be cool to create a place where anybody could share cool niche images they found and have them au…
Cool site! Just ordered an awesome poster of the star-birthing region in the Orion Nebula ( https://postercoop.com/posters/45/ ). Thanks for building and sharing your project.
From the description on that poster
"The artist’s share of profits from sales of this poster will be donated to NASA."
How, Though? You can't donate to NASA
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cool site! Just ordered an awesome poster of the star-birthing region in the Orion Nebula ( https://postercoop.com/posters/45/ ). Thanks for building and sharing your project.
From the description on that poster "The artist’s share of profits from sales of this poster will be donated to NASA." How, Though? You can't donate to NASA
You can order pizzas for employees?
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#36People raised in Space are going to wonder what we found so enticing about living dirtside, "Fun to visit, but why anyone lives like that is beyond me. We have perfect weather, a beautiful environment, and we're already halfway to anywhere we want to go."
Slightly related: in Asimov's Robot books, the humans on earth who live in enclosed mega cities (referred to as wombs more than once), struggle to be outside (basically none do go), and wonder why anyone would want to be out there.
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#37O’Neill cylinders were the template for space colonies in the Mobile Suit Gundam anime, going all the way back to the series premiere in 1979. One of many details which lent the show an air of gritty realism, despite its colorful giant robot fights.
Gundam continues to mix these gritty realistic space ideas with cool fighting robots. I wish more sci-fi shows would do this.
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#38And just because I'm drunk, some music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIN_cpdLyw4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIN_cpdLyw4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCsd5V5axQQ Ban me if you want
It would be more apt to use futuristic music from the 1970s https://youtu.be/AHNUQOhEkAo
There was already enough electronic music to form whole genres, like New Age (Space Music) and Space Disco.
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#39Oh man - I feel a lot of history with these images - they actually inspired one of the first online businesses I tried to make. I wanted to put one of these images on my wall, but they were niche enough that I couldn't find anybody selling them. I printed one myself using Zazzle, but then I started thinking that it would be cool to create a place where anybody could share cool niche images they found and have them au…
How do they look when printed? Are you sourcing the original images?
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#40How 'serious' were these pictures? Was this something they were seriously expecting in the coming years? I'm mindful of the fact that man had basically gone from just achieving orbit, to landing on the moon in a decade, so anything could have seemed possible at that stage.
Reasonably serious (for some definitions of "reasonably"). The illustrations were commissioned for a book published by NASA describing a design study on permanent space habitats at L5 creatively called "Space Settlements: A Design Study". I got this book as a kid in the late 70's and it was one of my favorites. I pored over each page oh so carefully for years. The study went into a fair amount of detail about what would be required to support 10,000 people in a stanford torus at L5. Everything from radiation shielding to sewage systems. From construction techniques to creating day-night cycles.
An online version HTML of the book is here:
https://space.nss.org/settlement/nasa/75SummerStudy/Table_of_Contents1.html
https://archive.org/details/SpaceSettlementsADesignStudy1977/page/n11