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Seg-communities

 

 

The websites listed below are about seg-communities (Self-sufficient Extra-terrestrial Green-habitats, or O’Neill communities).

 

“Space Colonization” (Wikipedia)

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization>

ABSTRACT: Space colonization (also called space settlement, space humanization, space habitation, etc.) is the concept of autonomous (self-sufficient) human habitation of locations outside Earth. It is a major theme in science fiction, as well as a long-term goal of various national space programs. While many people think of space colonies on the Moon or Mars, others argue that the first colonies will be in orbit. They have determined that there are ample quantities of all the necessary materials on the Moon and Near Earth Asteroids, that solar energy is readily available in very large quantities, etc. In 2005 NASA Administrator Michael Griffin identified space colonization as the ultimate goal of current spaceflight programs.

 

“Space Settlements” (NASA)

<http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement>

ABSTRACT: In the 1970's Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University showed that we can build giant orbiting spaceships and live in them. These orbital space colonies could be wonderful places to live; about the size of a California beach town and endowed with weightless recreation, fantastic views, freedom, elbow-room in spades, and great wealth. In time, we may see hundreds of thousands of orbital space settlements in our solar system alone. Building these settlements will be an evolutionary event in magnitude similar to, if not greater than, ocean-based Life's colonization of land half a billion years ago.

 

“Orbital Space Settlement Artist Renditions” (National Space Society)

<http://www.nss.org/settlement/space/index.html>

ABSTRACT: Colorful pictures (artist renditions) of various versions of seg-communities. Early settlements can be expected to orbit the Earth. Later settlements can spread out across the solar system, taking advantage of the water in Jupiter's moons or exploiting the materials of the asteroid belt. There is good reason to believe that orbital space settlements can provide terrific homes for ten trillion people, or perhaps even more. There is so much room for growth that the people of this world may realize that it is easier to build new land to live on rather than to fight over the limited resources that exist on the Earth. What a world that would be.

 

“SEGIT communities or SEGITs” (Dr. Charles Tandy)

<http://www.segits.com>

ABSTRACT: SEGIT communities or SEGITs = Self-sufficient Extra-terrestrial Green-habitat Intentional Transparent [self-replicating] communities. Are SEGITs a key to humanity’s survival and thrival? For information about SEGITs, see Dr. Tandy’s articles herein.

 

“Spaceflight or Extinction” (Michael Huang)

<http://www.spaext.com>

ABSTRACT: A civilization restricted to the surface of a single planet has inevitable threats to its long-term existence. Natural threats such as epidemics and impacts from space objects, and man-made threats such as nuclear and biological war, will be joined by new threats from emerging sciences and technologies. We have a choice between two possible futures: spaceflight or extinction.

 

”Space Studies Institute” (Founded by Dr. Gerard K. O’Neill)

<http://www.ssi.org>

ABSTRACT: Put six matches on a table, do not break any, and use them to make four equal triangles. The solution is simple: make an equal-sided triangle of three matches, and hold a new match at each point of the triangle with the other ends of those last three matches meeting above the table. You have made a perfect tetrahedron - and you have escaped two-dimensional thinking to find a solution in three. Likewise, seg-communities can solve the puzzle “Is the surface of Earth really the best place for an expanding technological civilization?”

 

 

This website is sponsored by

Dr. Charles Tandy <www.segits.com>

 

 

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