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§ 6.15 Links to Other Websites on Space Colonies

In addition to all the links cited in the text above, the following links regarding space colonies don't seem to fit in anywhere else in these pages but are worth listing:

Mike Combs maintains a Space Settlement FAQ (i.e., Frequently Asked Questions).

L5 First City in Space, a 3-D IMAX movie produced by Sony Theatres about the first space habitat, based on the same O'Neill concepts presented here at PERMANENT (i.e., rotating for artificial gravity, and growing their own food), albeit in a wild sci-fi movie. A review of the movie was kindly written up and sent to PERMANENT by Mike Combs.

U.S. government site on space colonies. However, instead of lunar and asteroidal materials utilization, this site bases the future on nanotechnology from Earth, another far future stepping stone. Nanotechnology is fine, but once we master nanotechnology, we will probably have made ourselves extinct by some awful manmade viruses as we start to develop nanotechnology... unless we get to space BEFORE nanotechnology is developed (otherwise I'd have less responsibility and motivation to do PERMANENT). Nonetheless, the author of that site has created some good philosophical text on the instinctual drive for space colonization.

Island One Society - initially a small WWW effort by Dale Amon

The Biospherics Homepage at biospherics.org - a fairly good page, and I hope one that takes life and leads the way internationally. Mark Nelson, the author of much of this material, is one of the individual leaders in this field.

Very large, long term future space colonies

Space Settlements Page, an excellent, attractive pictorial site by Mike Combs. It is also home to the Space Settlement FAQ (i.e., Frequently Asked Questions). In addition are his own hard science fiction. The pictures are big, so a fast link or a coffee break are needed. (On AOL.)

NASA-affiliated space settlement page by Al Globus with pictures.

Excellent 1970s art on far future space colonies scanned in and put up on the web thanks to Al Globus.

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