SPACE COLONIES


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Table of Contents

VISION

A Coevolution Book
The sky starts at your feet
THE HIGH FRONTIER by Gerard O'NEILL
TESTIMONY OF GERARD K. O'NEILL Space Colonization and Energy Supply to Earth
APPENDIX
"IS THE SURFACE OF A PLANET REALLY THE RIGHT PLACE FOR AN EXPANDING TECHNOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION?" Interviewing Gerard O'Neill
3-D Universe * The High Frontier * L-5 News * National Space Institute

DEBATE

COMMENTS ON O'NEILL'S SPACE COLONIES

Ken Kesey * Russell Schweickart * Lewis Mumford
Lynn Margulis * Richard Raymond * The real backers
Wendell Berry * Dean Fleming
Wilson Clark * Space for peace * E.F. Schumacher * Stephanie Mills * Steve Durkee * Extra energy

Steve Baer * The SF vote * Dennis Meadows * Hazel Hendersen
Allure * Daughter * Carl Sagan * Rather
Paul and Anne Ehrlich * Pioneer * Down the road
William Irwin Thompson * The rest of it * George Wald * David Brower
Michael Phillips * Ant Farm * John Todd


Brother David Steindl-Rast * Info isn't heavy * Planet parenthood * Richard Brautigan * Juvenile space

Peter Warshall * Space virus or child? * Arab Space Program
Anne Norica * Marc Le Brun * Metallurgical paradise * Hot Gaia * Erik Eckholm
Garrett Hardin * R. Buckminster Fuller * Seed
Paolo Soleri
Julia Brand * Better foolishness * David Shetzline * Partial atmospheric pressure
John Holt * Technical debate

Investment space * Space war * Gurney Norman * Gary Snyder * Sufficient error *
Brazil's space colony
Gerard O'Neill
Stewart Brand


SPACE COLONIES SHOULD KEEP AWAY FROM THE GOVERNMENT FOR A WHILE
Astronaut Russell Schweickart on the phone

THE DEBATE SHARPENS Wendell Berry Angry * "Spaceship Earth" comes home to roost * Driving or driven to Space? * Satellite surveillance * Other Voices * Life Spreads Before the Sun * If the Sun Dies

ECOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR SPACE COLONIES
Space agriculture and Space cops * Space agriculture retort
The smile of Timothy Leary * Space just means bigger weapons * 8 am of the world *
Limits to Growth - wronger than ever * Grandiose failure

JACQUES COUSTEAU AT NASA HEADQUARTERS
THE SPACE COLONIES IDEA 1969 - 977


SPACE

WHO'S EARTH by Russell Schweickart
"WHERE!?" by Carl Sagan * Steel asteroids * A House in Space*
THERE AIN'T NO GRACEFUL WAY Astronaut Russell Schweickart talking to Peter Warshall
CONTROVERSY IS RIFE ON MARS interviewing Carl Sagan and Lynn Margulis

Education for Space work * The Directory of Aerospace Education
Colonies in Space * Space Age Review * Earth/Space News
Space Settlements * Space Manufacturing Facilities * Spaceflight * JBIS
Concise Atlas of the Universe * Sky and Telescope * Astronomical Calendar

OLBERS' PARADOX by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
SOLAR SAILING by Eric Drexler * Heliogyro solar sail
OPERATING ON THE EDGE Russell Sweickart Talking
JERRY BROWN - FROM LIMITS ON EARTH TO POSSIBLITIES IN SPACE
INSTEAD OF FRICTIONLESS ELEPHANTS Talking with GERARD O'NEILL
The long view
Thanks


Explanation
Creative Inspiration Patricia Spencer
Author: Al Globus