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

March 18, 2022 Owen Cotter 647 Views colonization, construction, Dyson Sphere, Freeman Dyson, futurism, habitat, megastructure, science, space, sun

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, 2022 Owen Cotter 1027 Views 21st 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

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