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...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
Subject: Dumb Wannabe Colonists From: GroundHog <Standing@Sea.Level> Date: 1997/02/13 Message-Id: <33034984.4413@Sea.Level> Newsgroups: sci.space.policy Lots of crock on this newsgroups from wannabe space colonists about how mankind in general, and...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
Mike Combs, Copyright © 1999 This article also appeared in the Fall 1999 issue of Space Front, a publication of the Space Frontier Foundation. Sunlight Available 24×7 Convenient Access to Zero Gravity All Gravitational Options Available Living at the Top of a...
