Archive Gallery: PopSci's Most Fantastic Space Colonies

Knowing what we do now, none of the fanciful ideas displayed would have worked that well, and Biosphere 2 had to break it's air isolation when the Oxygen content got too low. Hopefully, the lessons learned from that will make future design efforts more realistic.

@ChuckLiddell
Looking at your avatar after reading the final "muahahhahha!!1" of your post made it that much more ominous and insane, but you're probably not too far off. :D

I think it's sill and fool hardy to try to colonize the solar system. Humans can't survive on other bodies outside of the planet earth. Are species is here for the duration.

Poineer10

Biosphere 2 was an experiment, no one realized the concrete used to build it would absorb so much oxygen, one thing I love about science, there is no such thing as a failed experiment, even the ones that do not go as you wish teach you what you need to model the next experiment better.

Boka? really?

If each generation of explorers listened to that kind of negative thinking we would still be living in caves in the African continent, No! wait, someone must have said going into that first cave was a bad idea, so we would all be standing out in the rain to scared to take the chance to get out of the rain, just like the animals in the wild getting soaked and waiting for the rain to end, because they cannot imagine a better thing to do.

Sorry Poineer10, let me rephrase that.

your right, most if not all of the old ideas would not have worked all that well, however if we had proceeded to try them we would have pushed our knowledge ahead much faster then we have and there is a very good chance we would have permanent colonies on the moon and maybe in orbit today.

but everyone is afraid if any failure these days, I am the first to say we need to do everything we can to prevent accidents and save lives but in the end every large project build by humanity has casualties, if we take all the time in the world to try and ensure perfect safety swaddling the explorers like babies in a cradle then we never get anything done, the loss of the first shuttle was a great tragedy, one that could have been avoided if not for greedy politicians and now the program is coming to an end, the majority of it's goals were never even tried. Indeed the shuttle program is about a near complete failure as far as I'm concerned

You might wonder why I said politicians?
The O ring that failed? there was two plans to make the boosters, one in a state far from Florida that required the boosters to be in modular sections, one that was from a company in Florida, just up river from the launch site, they would have made boosters in a single unit, collected the used one placed it on a barge and taken it right to the factory to be reused then barged back to Nasa, not only simpler and safer but cheaper.
Why did they go with the safer simpler cheaper idea?
A politician wanted part of the program in his state! So for a politician’s ego we lost a shuttle and the lives of the crew needlessly

err, I ment why did they NOT use the safer simpler cheaper idea

typos, we can put a man on the moon but even a spell checker is not infalable ;)

Yeah, nanotechnology will definitely do some amazing things! All our space problems will be solved with the help of this. Knock on wood. No, but really, the possibilities with this technology are immense! I haven't read any of Ray Kurzweil's books, but I have heard of some of his proposed concepts and they sound pretty incredible. He said that we will be able to put artificial blood cells into our bodies that would not require as much oxygen as normal blood cells witch would allow us to sprint at our full speed for long periods of time. I think he said like a couple of miles straight or something. The Singularity is near too. The Singularity is the point at which computers will be so advanced and they will have the required artificial intelligence that will allow them to appear no different than a human. People will then have the option too insert that computer knowledge (on a chip) into their brains allowing them to have a crazily amount of knowledge. From that point on, the possibilities are endless! There are many other awesomely cool things that he mentions that are in store for the future, but you'll just have to check it out for yourself. Google Ray Kurzweil or the Singularity, and there will be plenty of links to choose from!

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Damn. That's pretty freakin cool! Nanobots are awesome!