schematic design

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In case we run out of ideas we can always live in gigantic bubbles or even round tubes!

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If you think about it you just need to spray paint Mars to make it look like our planet. Does paint come in the color "Earth?" Just imagine all the cans we'll need. The environmentalists won't like this at all. This is probably not a good idea. (Mars Terraformed)

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I grew up watching a Japanese cartoon called "Mobile Suit Gundam." With explosions and gigantic robots with lasers fighting each other it was fun to watch, and it still is today. The background of the story involved humanity's migration to space due to overcrowding. Eventually someone said something stupid and a war began. Anyway these space humanoids lived in cylindrical space colonies that produced its own artificial gravity. These tubes where self sufficient and massive. From what I read on Wikipedia this concept is based on a more realistic yet fictional idea called the O'Neill Cylinder or the more catchy Island Three habitat.
O, and yes these things had lasers too.

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Before the year 2001 the closest thing to that in 1968 was a movie called "2001: A Space Odyssey." It was directed by Stanley Kubrick and it was about evolution, advanced technology, very temperamental artificial a.i., and aliens. Here we see a Pan Am space ship leaveing Space Station 5. When man first stepped on the moon Pan Am opened up reservations for the first moon vacations and with moon fever in the air the books filled up. This would eventually turn into the world's longest check in delay in commercial aviation history. Those people are still waiting today.