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Looking at these images, I can't help but feel that any real space colony like this will be like Singapore on steroids. For all its issues, Earth is actually p
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
Looking at these images, I can't help but feel that any real space colony like this will be like Singapore on steroids.
For all its issues, Earth is actually pretty resilient. To ability to destroy civilization is pretty much limited to very large nation states.
Not so in a spinning space colony. A small group could easily destroy it. Thus, there will be ubiquitous surveillance and huge social and legal pressure towards "correct" behavior.
- dsign 5y agoThat's the plot of "Red Sky-Ceiling", where one person infiltrates a space-habitat with a lethal virus and everybody needs to go into self-isolation. Cool thing though, they could tint red their sky to signal bio-hazard. By the way, I've done the math, and a habitat like the one in that book would need to fuse 18 metric tons of Deuterium per day to produce "solar light" for an area equals to Virginia state's. Pumping heat out of that thing must be a similarly hairy challenge.