RE: We can dare to dream of the stars again, if only we can achieve this small thing.
May 15, 2012 at 5:40 pm
(May 15, 2012 at 5:11 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I can't remember who said it, (maybe Larry Niven) but it was estimated that the cost of an O'Neal colony in Earth orbit (huge hollow asteroid, filled with air and spun for gravity) whould be imposibly expensive for any country to afford..... about the same cost as the Vietnam war
I can see how this might be tangentially related to the topic, but this isn't want NASA is focusing on and I'm confused as to how it's relevant.
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