Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
By Mike Combs, Last update: June, 2014 Questions: What is space settlement? What is a space habitat? How is space settlement different from any of the other space colonization proposals? Aren’t we going to terraform Mars or Venus? What advantages would orbital...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs , Copyright © 1996 There is another world which lies alongside our own. I know because I have journeyed there. I am Rahbert, of the Caddlemon tribe. We are one of about twenty tribes in the world (but now that I know there is more than one world, I must...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
Figure: A mass driver asteroid tug 2008 saw the centennial of the Tunguska event, which prompted us once again to consider: When will the next major asteroid strike occur? And is there anything we could do about it? Tunguska of that era was a sparsely-inhabited...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs, Copyright © 2006 I was eating lunch in my favorite restaurant when the word came that it was my responsibility to pluck a tumbling animal out of the sky. “Void Walkers” is easily the most popular restaurant here in Bernal Alpha (yep,...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
Space Settlement Computer Animations This computer animation by Eric Bruneton is actually intended to depict the Rama object from the Arthur C. Clarke sf novel “Rendezvous with Rama”, but I think it also doubles nicely as an illustration of what the inside...
