The O'Neil Syndrome Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: The O'Neil Syndrome
# 4930 bytango_dancer@... on Feb. 9, 2004, 7:01 p.m.
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--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "George Perkins"
>
> O'Neill was the best known advocate for the space colony. In the
> late 70's, there was great excitement about the possibility of
> having O'Neill space colonies set up by the turn of the 21st
> century. Gerard K. O'Neill's physics students in Princeton began
> looking for a positive role for humanity in leaving all planetary
> surfaces behind and establishing artificial ecosystems swarming
> around the stars like moths.
TangoMan