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"I kind of take it for granted that our great-grandchildren will regard us as a sort of precursor species. That they won't think of us as human and if we could see them, we probably wouldn't think of them as human either."
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Who needs a dome when your blanket of air stays put?`
There is one particular problem with the air-blanket, particularly if implemented on an asteroid with very low gravity:
Compare to the old-fashioned way, the moon dome from Brigands of the Moon (1930) by Ray Cummings. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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