Space Colony Art from the 1970s, Gallery of NASA Ames study images |
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Space Colony Art from the 1970s, Gallery of NASA Ames study images |
 May 11 2006, 03:20 AM
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I remember reading O'Neill's book as a kid - all the pics were in black and white.
Now - IN LIVING COLOR!  Ah, the 70's. "Hey baby - my place or L-5?" EDIT - upon zooming in on some of them I seem to recognize a signature on some. -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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May 11 2006, 04:42 AM
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Shades of Rama.
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May 11 2006, 02:36 PM
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I went to a presentation at Iowa State University by Dr. O'Neill, probably in the spring of 1976. He was late (blamed rogue elements from the Society for the Preservation of the Vacuum for the delay) but gave a very good talk which was very well received. Memories fade, but as I recall, maybe 400 attendees.
I was ready to emigrate, and I don't even like heights. |
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May 11 2006, 03:22 PM
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QUOTE (lyford @ May 10 2006, 10:20 PM)  I remember reading O'Neill's book as a kid - all the pics were in black and white. Now - IN LIVING COLOR! Very cool. And to think we could have put up one or more of those nice toroidal colonies for the price of the ISS :/ Not to mention unmanned landers/orbiters for every body of interest in the solar system and beyond... |
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May 11 2006, 04:31 PM
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QUOTE (tasp @ May 11 2006, 03:36 PM) I was ready to emigrate, and I don't even like heights. You're lucky - I had a big delegation turn up from from the local village, complete with firebrands and pitchforks and noises off, who insisted that I should go! And it was only a *baby* monster, too. Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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May 11 2006, 07:05 PM
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If you go to the main Space Settlement page:
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/Sp...ment/index.html Scroll down to the section on books and other resources. There you will find the online version of the 1977 study that NASA actually published and excited my teenage imagination with promises of giant orbiting colonies by the 1990s (that's what the newspapers said). Of course they also promised me manned Mars landings and lunar colonies by the 1980s. The other book to check out is the CoEvolution Book on Space Settlements, also from 1977. http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/Sp...oEvolutionBook/ They don't make 'em like that any more. Hopefully the idea has just been delayed, not abandonded. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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