Giant Space Settlements? Why? Science Fiction Grandmaster Joe Haldeman, creator of so many classics including The Hemingway Hoax, Camouflage, All My Sins Remembered and, of...
Joe Haldeman Essay: Peace From On High
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Unintended Consequences and Avoidable Ones
Share this image. Share this need. This is important. Blind Faith has no place in mission-critical engineering and Human lives are mission-critical to the Humanization of...
Why is the org into the “most far flung ideas” the one org pushing for the most important near-term work?
Someone is finally at least talking about starting some kind of Reduced Gravity test hardware! SpaceX? No. Blue Origin? Nope. Boeing+Lockheed=ULA? Nah. ESA? NASA? No and for the...
Yellow, Grey and Brown
Back during the holiday break, about when a young researcher was looking for overview pointers on closed loops, I came across an Irish government proposal on human waste...
Nothing new under the sun, alas
Comments on the previous post brought this little item to mind, Gerard K. O'Neill on a why of the Space Studies Institute. The age old...
from the SSI Facebook page
you don't need a facebook account to view the latest SSI posts. just click https://www.facebook.com/SpaceStudiesInstitute and scroll past the nag banners. Question: Are the...
Small World
Around Sand Hill Road you see lots of odd books under people's arms. It's an unusual location with the SLAC on one side of the street and the rows of 1980s styled venture capital...
Hear it in context
Recent magazine articles, blogs and documentaries have passed along snippets, this weekend turn up the speaker on your phone and hear the entire message, start-to-finish, in...
In case you hadn't heard…
All of the "Lost" 1976 Space Manufacturing Summer Study recordings have been cleaned up and are now waiting for you on the SSI Soundcloud Channel. Plus there's GKON on Good, Evil...
Gee Whiz Society
A small group got together at the Dutch Goose in Menlo Park, the burger joint where Gerard K. O'Neill would share lunches with the construction workers and physicists who were...