Sci-Fi Short Film, Space Colonies, Science, UFOs, Fruit Flies, ET Contact and Walk-ins
“Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end." "Should I try Fox News?" I asked. Mom shuddered. "We're not that desperate," she said.” - Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It , Goodreads . OddsnEnds - Fascinating conversation via the Space Studies Institute. Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill and Dr. Isaac Asimov discuss Space colonies and how it is more practical, for multiple reasons, to house people on space vessels rather than a planetary surface - such as the moon. Soundcloud . Asimov used the term “planetary chauvinism” to refer to the systematic bias of science fiction toward planetary exploration. O'Neill proposed an alternative vision in which human beings would not seek to colonize planets, but instead build their own enclosed cylindrical space habitats. Source . "We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the...