What would life be like in a big space station? Imagine a huge O’Neill cylinder, revolving to create artificial gravity, where millions of people could live. What would it be like to live there?
Will there be strict rules for every aspect of life, and no freedom at all? Will the inhabitants feel safer than on Earth? Will there be prisons, or will criminals be ‘spaced’?
How will the millions of tons of waste be removed? Will there be animals there? Birds flying around? Will the cylinder seem beautiful to those who live there? Will there be factories in the zero-gravity part of the cylinder that make stuff for Earth?
Where will the permanent stations be? In orbit around Earth, or Mars, or at a lagrange point or in the asteroid belt?
When will all this happen? Bring your friends, and your furniture and move in to talk about it.
IM Vulcan Viper, who teaches a meditation class every Wednesday at the GeekSpeak auditorium at 1pm SLT, if you have ideas for new subjects.
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