Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
One of the most challenging mysteries facing mankind is this: Are we alone in this vast galaxy in which we find ourselves, or are there other technological civilizations in other star systems? We concern ourselves with technologically-advanced civilizations, for these...
Sep 9, 2014 | Mike Combs Space Settlement Collection
Illustration: Gerard K. O’Neill with Bernal Sphere Space Settlement Model Gerard K. O’Neill, father of the space settlement concept. The model on the desk is a Bernal Sphere, minus the mirrors. What the heck is Gerard O’Neill doing with those pens? I...
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,...
