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As Gerard K. O'Neill famously asked, "Is the surface of a planet really the right place for an expanding technological civilization?"[1] 1. https://en.wikipedi
by perilunar 10y ago
As Gerard K. O'Neill famously asked, "Is the surface of a planet really the right place for an expanding technological civilization?"[1]
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_K._O%27Neill#Space_colonization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_K._O%27Neill#Space_colo...
- grondilu 10y agoThought about that as well. There's a nice PBS Space Time episode where they invented a word about it : "surfacism". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ5KV3rzuag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ5KV3rzuag
- perilunar 10y agoO'Neill wasn't talking about the clouds of Venus though, he was talking about colonies in orbit or beyond, made from materials mined from asteroids.