The High Frontier: Human Colonies in SpaceMonograph on future habitation and human settlement in outer space - describes possible habitats for humanity in space colonys, and includes the transcript of a USA congressional hearing on "aerospace technology and national needs". Illustrations and references. |
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... Perhaps , too , we can find less annoy- ing scavengers than the housefly , and can take along the useful bees while leaving behind wasps and hornets . Perhaps because we were originally a hunting and gathering species , the urge to ...
... Perhaps , too , we can find less annoy- ing scavengers than the housefly , and can take along the useful bees while leaving behind wasps and hornets . Perhaps because we were originally a hunting and gathering species , the urge to ...
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... perhaps even pressurized , and shielded against the radiation from solar flares . When winter comes to the San Joaquin , it closes down the growing season over the entire valley at once . That will not happen in the space habitat ...
... perhaps even pressurized , and shielded against the radiation from solar flares . When winter comes to the San Joaquin , it closes down the growing season over the entire valley at once . That will not happen in the space habitat ...
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... perhaps in one of the external cylinders , could have a gravity as small as a thou- sandth that of Earth , and could ... perhaps there is something of Jonathan Seagull in each of us . * From the time of classical Greece , and perhaps ...
... perhaps in one of the external cylinders , could have a gravity as small as a thou- sandth that of Earth , and could ... perhaps there is something of Jonathan Seagull in each of us . * From the time of classical Greece , and perhaps ...
Contents
A LETTER FROM SPACE | 11 |
THE PLANETARY | 34 |
ISLANDS IN SPACE | 61 |
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