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Future of Lunar Colonization

April 14, 2022July 14, 2022 Owen Cotter 116 ViewsAstronauts, colonization, colony, Energy, engineering, exploration, Future, futurism, Lunar, Lunar Lander, Moon, moonbase, regolith, science, space, Spacecraft, tech 3 min read

Establishing a colony on the moon would force scientists and engineers to solve extremely complex design problems but would open

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What Is a Dyson Sphere and Can We Ever Build One ?

March 18, 2022July 14, 2022 Owen Cotter 138 Viewscolonization, construction, Dyson Sphere, Freeman Dyson, futurism, habitat, megastructure, science, space, sun 3 min read

Dyson spheres may be unrealistic right now, but they’re likely coming in the next few hundred years. A Dyson sphere

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Life aboard an O’Neill Cylinder

February 13, 2022July 14, 2022 Owen Cotter 98 Views21st century, 70s, art, book, colonization, colony, concept, futurism, Gerard K. O'Neill, habitat, Humanity, Interstellar, movie, NASA, O'Neill Cylinder, physicist, science, settlement, space, The High Frontier, visionary 1 min read

An O’Neill cylinder is a space settlement concept proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O’Neill in his 1976 book The

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Will NASA Colonize The Moon In 2024?

February 12, 2022July 14, 2022 Owen Cotter 101 ViewsArtemis Program, Base, futurism, Gateway, Humanity, Lander, Lunar, Moon, NASA, Orbit, Outpost, Return, Robotics, Rocket, science, SLS, Spacecraft, Travel 0 min read

Humans have successfully landed on the lunar surface six times using technology from the 1960s. The last crewed mission to