"Suarez agrees with Bezos’ sentiment, but not because the billionaire founder of Amazon and Blue Origin came up with the idea. In the latest episode of the Fiction Science...
New O’Neillian Fiction
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The High Frontier
Vast Space to launch 1st private station on SpaceX rocket in 2025
"No one will be more surprised than I if, when Island One is completed, it looks very much like the sketches we now make of it. Even its size and its population may well be quite...
Joe Haldeman Essay: Peace From On High
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...
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...
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...
Free Presentations from The Space Studies Institute
The Space Studies Institute is sometimes asked if we can provide pre-made Powerpoint presentations so folks can go out and correctly give new minds The High Frontier Concept. ...
There’s An O’Neill Colony in San Francisco
The Bay Area is beautiful this time of year. The trees in all of the parks are nearly turned and soon that legendary romantic, film noir fog will be making the Golden Gate Bridge...
Gerard O'Neill on Good and Evil
A classic lecture by Professor Gerard O'Neill is now available on the Space Studies Institute's Soundcloud site. Professor O'Neill explains why you probably don't need to fear...
Watch the legendary "Roundtable TV Interview"
“We are so used to living on a planetary surface that it is a wrench for us even to consider continuing our normal human activities in another location. If, however, the human...