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Originally posted by Blue Shift
"Space colony." It looks like a typical boring 1970's suburban condominium complex transplanted onto the inside of a glass donut. I don't suppose it occurred to all these white suburbanite space designers that maybe there are some people who don't want to live like that, and who feel more at home in a more vertical, gritty, urban environment where human interaction is a little more aggressive and heightened.
I think the designs say more about the philosophy and psychology of the designers than they do about the future of manned space habitation.
Originally posted by Blue Shift
"Space colony." It looks like a typical boring 1970's suburban condominium complex transplanted onto the inside of a glass donut. I don't suppose it occurred to all these white suburbanite space designers that maybe there are some people who don't want to live like that, and who feel more at home in a more vertical, gritty, urban environment where human interaction is a little more aggressive and heightened.
I think the designs say more about the philosophy and psychology of the designers than they do about the future of manned space habitation.
Originally posted by Blue Shift
"Space colony." It looks like a typical boring 1970's suburban condominium complex transplanted onto the inside of a glass donut. I don't suppose it occurred to all these white suburbanite space designers that maybe there are some people who don't want to live like that, and who feel more at home in a more vertical, gritty, urban environment where human interaction is a little more aggressive and heightened.
I think the designs say more about the philosophy and psychology of the designers than they do about the future of manned space habitation.
Originally posted by davidgrouchy
I would like to say to each poster in this thread (read the whole thing) that there may be a conspiracy behind all this.
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The dream of space was suppressed because of fear.
The _method_ of suppressing the dream was a meme
that first surfaced in my area in the late 70's early 80's
"Space!? We have enough problems here on Earth."
It was useful to the average six-pack or grocery-shopper when they found themselves in a conversation above their education level.
Also, once on the defensive, most space fanatics
were hard pressed to explain the safety issues,
how to effect a rescue, and how unpleasant life in zero G is.
I've been looking into this since the 70's
when I first became a conspiracy theorist
over the shuttle redesign in committee
where they divided it into two parts so it could be
in Florida AND Louisiana.
(the original was twice as big and all the fuel was in the wings, no external tank to shed a piece of ice and cause catastrophic loss of life later (but politicians know best don't they))
So I've been sniffing around for the hidden why of it all for many a year, and here is my theory.
[color=gold] The dream was suppressed because of fear.
In my opinion anyway.
I'm still nervous about speculating openly about this.
It has no context.
It's so far outside the normal perspective on society that it almost seems to lack motivation to most who hear it.
A fundamentalist Cult goes to orbit, nukes the world, then returns to repopulate.
This is the hidden fear that, I feel, motivates the suppression of the space dream. So much that it shouldn't even be possible for someone to conceive of such a thing.
AND THAT is the pop culture world we live in this day.
David Grouchyedit on 7-11-2011 by davidgrouchy because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by speculativeoptimist
reply to post by AaronWilson
Agreed, it seems there is no room in our dreams for such endeavors anymore. Dream are turning to nightmares of fear and survival. (
Originally posted by steveknows
I think it was the ending of the cold war that stopped the space race. Pehaps when China starts landing on the Moon or Mars then the race will be on again.edit on 7-11-2011 by steveknows because: Typo
When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
-The Narrator, Fight Club
The best ones I've seen from that period are hollowed out asteriods turned into giant ships. The body's already made and we just need to convert it.
Originally posted by speculativeoptimist
Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson hit on a possibility too in the vid [color=gold] "we stopped dreaming."
I am not sure whether this is a result of genuine disinterest or intentional misdirection