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Tordial colonies (We have the technology to build these)
Cylindrical coloinies
Bernal spheres
Nice pictuers. When do we leave?
Actually, I'd rather stay on Earth if you don't mind...
Everyone else can bugger off into space and I'll have the planet to myself!!! Super!!! Unless anyone else wants to stay too?
Wow.
Nice.
Cool.
You can have space; I shall remain here.
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If thay existed and then broke as in space and inside the tubes mixed would it create an atmosphere?
1) How would we maintain the earth's gravity in space?
2) Why!?
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I have a feeling that money won't be much of an issue when construction of these things begins.
These colonies use centrifugal force to simulate gravity. They spin on an axis.
I was originally going to post this in the human extinction thread. Colonies like these could be a solution to overpopulation.
I'm afraid that the only realistic solution (such as it is) to over-population is the wide spread of safe and effective birth control (including abortion).
The effectiveness of this measure turns on the spread of education for women...it's a fact that the more educational opportunities for women emerge, the sharper the fall in the birth-rate.
If you start crunching the numbers of what it would take to left a significant portion of the Earth's present population into orbit...the numbers grow at an appalling rate.
Space colonies are the way to go for the human species, in my view...but only a very tiny number of earthlings will live in them. Probably less than 10,000.
Unless, of course, some completely unanticipated "break-through" makes orbital achievement "cheap" and "easy".
I would expect "space colonists" to be very rigorously screened, by the way. Only the very bright and very healthy need apply.
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ill stay, but only if i can hang out in canada lolOriginally posted by The Children of the Revolution@Nov 21 2003, 06:21 PM
Nice pictuers. When do we leave?
Actually, I'd rather stay on Earth if you don't mind...
Everyone else can bugger off into space and I'll have the planet to myself!!! Super!!! Unless anyone else wants to stay too?
Wow.
Nice.
Cool.
You can have space; I shall remain here.
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
Sure friend, the whole of the American subcontinent is yours!!
If there are only the two of us, I'll take EurAsia. Australia can go to the kangaroos.
Peace, Love and Jesus!
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<span style=\'color:green\'>"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." (Albert Einstein) </span>
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<span style=\'color:black\'>"To find a queen without a king,
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings,
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn,
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems." (Led Zeppelin!
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when did we start playing Risk?
anyway, I have a Modest Proposal. I think we should solve the problems of overpopulation and famine by eating babies. 2 birds with one stone.
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Damn, you want to stay too?
Well, it's getting a little crowded now... You'll have to settle for Africa i'm afraid. Or the antarctic? You choose!
(Eating babies? A little drastic... Maybe we should start executing people when they reach 30, that may work...)
I EAT BABIES!! GET IN MAH BELLY!! I WANT MY BABY-BACK-BABY-BACK-BABY-BACK...
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<span style=\'color:green\'>"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." (Albert Einstein) </span>
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<span style=\'color:black\'>"To find a queen without a king,
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings,
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn,
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems." (Led Zeppelin!
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Colonizing the space is not going to happen soon.In the future that sky is dark of pollutions, Forests have been cut and animals have extinct.
what happens when an spaceship crashes into the tube?
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A modest proposal, indeed. We should start with the Irish babies. Parents can be proud of having the most tender children. Mayhaps the Stalinists will help us on this one.
anyway, why would you assume that houses and stuff would look the same in space? I don't think they would. And what if a Gundam chops one up? Then your fucked.
This whole idea isn't really a solution, but its fun to thinka bout
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I guess it wouldn't prevent human overpopulation, but it probably would perevent human extinction.
which is a good things, i guess
Resist Much. Obey Little
-Walt Whitman
<span style=\'color:gray\'>"As through this life you travel, you meet some funny men
Some rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen
As through this life you ramble, as through this life you roam
You'll never see an outlaw take a family from their home"
-from Pretty Boy Floyd
(W. Guthrie)</span>
Is it really?
Oh Tameracks, waht a happy sort of tree!
sometimes i think that the earth as a whole would be better off if homo sapiens sapiens just died off. But then again, that wouldn't be natural, since it is only natural for humans to inhabit the earth at the moment.
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I feel these constructs would be more useful if they head a purpose; like they were heading on an inter-generational cruise to the nearest habitable star system.
These ships will provide as much an earth-like environment for the colonists and their children as they head toward their destination.
TCOTR, you may not be able to have sunsets, but theres nothing to prevent you having pine forests.
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Ach, not a PROPER pine forest though... :P
No, you guys go ahead. I'm happy on Earth, really happy. It's just a shame that Humanity seems intent on destroying it.
Travelling to the nearest inhabitable Star system would take eons. Especially with a ship that size; self-sustaining power would need to be developed first. And a way to live in harmony with the eco-system "onboard". Plus, the population would have to remain constant; and fed. And absolutely no Wars or conflicts would be allowed. Equality for all races and nations; no pesky class sytem either.
(But if all this came to pass, the Earth would be really groovy!! Why bugger off into space?? Just learn to live in peace here!!
Peace, Love and Jesus!
<span style=\'color:red\'>Also, Lenin.</span>
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<span style=\'color:green\'>"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." (Albert Einstein) </span>
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<span style=\'color:black\'>"To find a queen without a king,
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings,
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn,
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems." (Led Zeppelin!
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Buy Leninade and get "Hammered and Sickled"!
