The Risk/Opportunity of Space

Human history is full of social experiments and ours is not the only or most enduring idea. What kind of society can survive when expanded to interplanetary size is hard to imagine but I doubt it can support the kind of self delusion that most of our present systems embody. The first principle of our interplanetary effort is that it be able to survive monumental social change as few institutions have been able to. We must also solve the problem of population or it solves itself at our expense; the directed conclusions are few: war, colonization, repressive government, plague, and pollution. Only one of these conclusions looks good. (Read More...)

Robots, Robots, Robots

As a generalist, unencumbered by details, I can imagine space construction robots similar to those used in factories. (Read More...)

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Torus, Torus, Torus

We can define the absolute minimum needed to be exported from earth and develop the factory in space so that when regular space transport is available, there will be some place for us to go. (Read More...)

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Materials in Space

A major initiative in space will be to turn the things we find into things we can use. (Read More...)

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