Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs, Copyright © 2000 This article also appeared in the Summer 2000 issue of Space Front, a publication of the Space Frontier Foundation, and was presented at the 2004 International Space Development Conference. Certainly many early space thinkers have...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs,Copyright © 1997 The Christians had it all wrong when they said Hell was a lake of burning fire. Hell, Wendell Drake had decided long ago, was being stuck in a Chicago traffic jam in the middle of December. Wendell held one hand up to block the orange...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs, Copyright © 2004 ‘Well, Dyson’s gone and topped himself again.’ ‘Oh yeah,’ I replied, ‘So exactly how does one top spheres the size of solar systems and trees on comets?’ ‘Actually, Keith, his newest idea...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs, Copyright © 1994 I used to write for the Fanzine of a Star Trek club, and sometimes used this forum for the discussion of High Frontier-type concepts. The following article was written for a Star Trek audience and was published in one of the club...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
by Mike Combs, Copyright © 1996 Establishing shot of Dallas, TX. Cut to a hotel. Interior. Notaro, a brown-skinned man of North African origins is working on a home-made bomb. He sets the timer for 2:30 PM. He leaves, but does not take the bomb with him. He climbs...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
In May of 2006, Dr. David Criswell became aware of this article and contacted me to resume our debate about the relative merits of Lunar Solar Power (LSP) stations vs. lunar-resources-derived GEO SPS. Dr. Criswell said that all of his comparisons were toward the...
