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A couple of space colony studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made...

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http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/70sArt/art.html

Interesting. very nice.

Good one Kate.

I had forgotten all about the orbital habitat thing. I don't really expect to see such things in my lifetime, but I can dream. Perhaps the children of my grandchildren will see/build these.

Those are fantastic visions of a possible future. A really nice find, Kate. There is just one thing I don't get. Where do they get all that dirt? I would expect most of the trees and things to be grown hydroponically, without using soil at all. I wonder how they are shielding against cosmic rays also. Maybe they have developed resistant people?

Anyway, they are really nice pictures. I ran one off to stick on my wall as fodder for the imagination. As if mine needed help!

"Rendezvous With Rama" doesn't seem so sci-fi, not that it was that sci-fi when I 'lived' it

I really like the one where they're having cocktails on the balcony!

And the fashions are wonderful too!

Whatever happened to the days of optimism and innocence when we believed things like this were possible?

What are you trying to say? <grin>

it would either come from the moon, or from a near earth object (asterorid passing near by) most likely. it would be far easier to mine a neo than it would be to lift the materials from earth, or even the moon.