As I've mentioned a few times, according to my childhood ambitions, I should be working on the Moon by now. Or commuting from my otherworldly Arvo Job to my groovy pad in the swankiest district of the hippest, domed metropolis on the Martian plains. At the very least, I should be living on a cool, colony habitat orbiting Jupiter or some distant star.
If you want to relive that dream, pop over to http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/space-colony-art-from-the-1970s/ and see what the future used to look like.
Forests.
But in space!
In the 1970′s the Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University held a series of space colony summer studies which explored the possibilities of humans living in giant orbiting spaceships. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed and a number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made.
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I remember the movie 'Silent Running'.
I was thinking about 'Silent Running' too when I posted that picture! I loved that movie so much when I was a kid - still do, except these days I tend to skip the whole psychedelic racing-about-in-a-buggy scene :) Oh, those little robots...
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