"Using the material and energy resources of space to improve the human condition on Earth."
-Gerard K. O’Neill
Opinion
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 something to be personally experienced. If you haven't been in a while, the architecture...
SSI Mass Drivers on Space.com and elsewhere
December 2019 update: Part 3 of the 1976 Space Manufacturing Summer Study Series: "Dr. Brian O'Leary on Mass Driver Payload Guidance and Transfer" is now available on the Space Studies Institute SoundCloud Channel. This joins part 2 (Dr. Frank Chilton on Mass Driver...
SSI 50: The Space Settlement Enterprise Video Collection
Professional organizations release conference videos for folks who couldn't make the trips themselves, but professional viewers have to remember that there is a human downside to having a bunch of sessions dropped all together on the internet. Many of us have trained...
SSI 50: Reevaluating SSPS and Considering Other Revenue Potentials
About three quarters the way through the final panel session of the final day of SSI 50, two attendees quickly ducked out of the Allen auditorium to refresh their coffees. As the door eased closed behind them I heard the one man's exasperated words, "Sheeesh! Robots,...
SSI 50: Bioneering
"Life originated in the sea and developed in it slowly for hundreds of millions of years, while the land surfaces of the ancient earth remained utterly lifeless. The primitive, soft-bodied sea creatures, many of them hardly more dense than the water itself, were...
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