#space colony

[humanoidhistory]

Angus McKie's cover art for The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by Gerard K. O'Neill, 1978.

[technicallyclassyperfection]

Quantum Ark Station

by @Macbaconai

[myecandy]

Ceres dusk

[mindblowingscience]

More than 50 years after the last Apollo mission, the United States will try once again to land a craft on the Moon on January 25, said the head of what could be the first private company to successfully touch down on the lunar surface. ​The lander, named Peregrine, will have no one on board. It was developed by American company Astrobotic, whose CEO John Thornton said it will carry NASA instruments to study the lunar environment in anticipation of NASA's Artemis manned missions. ​Several years ago, NASA opted to commission US companies to send scientific experiments and technologies to the Moon – a program called CLPS. ​These fixed-price contracts should make it possible to develop a lunar economy, and provide transport services at a lower cost. ​"One of the big challenges of what we're attempting here is attempting a launch and landing on the surface Moon for a fraction of what it would otherwise cost," said Thornton Wednesday at a press briefing at his company's base in in Pittsburgh.

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[retroscifiart]

Space Colonies by Syd Mead, Roy Scarfo, Rick Guidice & Don Davis

[katev]

My artwork for the Sonic Fanbook. The theme was to come up with a new level, and I decided to return to the past on the ARK. The level itself is The Botanical Garden, where both familiar and unusual plants are grown.

There are no serious enemies at that level, but there are Robot Gardeners who take care of the garden, and they are very unhappy of being used as a springboard. Some of them may even try to catch troublemakers.

[leo-fie]

There aren't enough Dyson Trees in Science Fiction.

I can't believe Dan Simmon's Hyperion was the first time I heard of this concept.

It's a tree that's a space ship. A space ship that is a tree. It's the most delicious idea! Where is it?

It's called Dyson after Feeman J. Dyson, a mathematician and physicist, who also thought up the Dyson Sphere. A concept I'm sure many are familiar with. (There's also the O'Neill Cylinder, that colony thing at the end of Interstellar)

A Dyson Tree is a construct where a plant grows inside a comet or asteroid or something and produces it's own atmosphere. With a human crew it could easily be envisioned as a system where humans produce CO2 and the plant produces oxygen. Slap on some thrusters and you have a space ship. Some artificial gravity and you have a tree instead of a bush.

Tree houses! In space!

And it's not just some fancy scifi nonsense, oh no! An actual nerd thought of this!

[varivahl]

Sometimes I think about the Space colonies in G Gundam and how Neo America is a giant vaguely Texas shaped star with a stupidly huge flag and statue of liberty that dwarfs their own mountains and cities

[visuallifes]

[youare-number6]

Views of the Valley

[humanoidhistory]

Don Davis, 1975.

(MoMA)

[technicallyclassyperfection]

Via print:

[myecandy]

Frontier journals

[theseworldsareyours]

Crater Lake Megastructure by Carter Sheppard / UniversalGibbon

[retroscifiart]

Stanford Torus Space Colony by Ron Guidice for NASA, 1975

[posthumanwanderings]

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