Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always… - Gerard K. O'Neill
Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always…
- Gerard K. O'Neill
Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization? - Gerard K. O'Neill
Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with. - Gerard K. O'Neill
Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segmen… - Gerard K. O'Neill
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segmen…
More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us . . . the new lands waiting to… - Gerard K. O'Neill
More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us . . . the new lands waiting to…
It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Ea… - Gerard K. O'Neill
It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Ea…
We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, … - Gerard K. O'Neill
We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, …
Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. - Gerard K. O'Neill
Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.
The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of ti… - Gerard K. O'Neill
The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of ti…
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