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Thought 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=gJ5KV3rzu

Thought 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 ago
O'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.
- oniony 10y ago
  Mars is a stepping stone, both figuratively and literally.
  - perilunar 10y ago
    The asteroids are the stepping stones. Mars is more like a small hole. Obligatory XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/681/ https://www.xkcd.com/681/