Super-habitats

because the people with the money have not decided to spend it on
this. The people that want it dont have the money to build it.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, Douglas May wrote:
>
> On Sep 5, 2006, at 5:58 PM, joe@... wrote:
>
> > Of course if you're talking about things we might build in the
next
> > few
> > decades, then I agree with you completely. We'll certainly start
small
> > and work our way up. But it's fun (if somewhat futile) now and
then to
> > try and picture what life might be like centuries from now.
>
> I'm increasingly losing confidence that small scale production
will
> begin in the next few decades. Deadlines keep coming and going.
> Progress keeps slowing and stopping. A figurative dike's going to
> have to break before we really begin popular space settlement.
There
> will be some monumental technological breakthrough (perhaps
energy,
> perhaps propulsion, perhaps material construction) that will not
only
> kickstart colonization, it will make much of our current planning
> seem quaint. Everytime people say that we could do this with
current