It appears that Interstellar inadvertently vindicated

On Nov 19, 2014, at 12:10 PM, 'Combs, Mike' mikecombs@... [spacesettlers] wrote:

> Its struck me as funny that movie-makers basically ignored ONeills vision for many decades. And then with Elysium and now Interstellar weve had 2 orbital habitat depictions in a short period.
>

As Mark Hopkins is fond of saying: we are winning (the battle of ideas re: space settlement).
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Its struck me as funny that movie-makers basically ignored ONeills vision for many decades. And then with Elysium and now Interstellar weve had 2 orbital habitat depictions in a short period.
As Mark Hopkins is fond of saying: we are winning (the battle of ideas re: space settlement).