... abuse of resident populations and the misuse of resources, that have been made by colonisers in the past. The dominance of certain companies in space colonisation could reach a ‘quasi-sovereign’ status, which allows them to establish their own rules...
... discoveries and advances are only a matter of time, at most a matter of money, but in no way block the route to space colonisation. What does impede humanity’s advancement into the future are our own limitations, the limits we set...
... plan was summarised in a paper published in 1974 in Physics Today: “It is important to realise the enormous power of the space-colonisation technique. If we begin to use it soon enough, and if we employ it wisely, at least five of the most serious...
... 2 is a closed, ecological system in Oracle, Arizona that has been used to explore the viability of biospheres for space colonisation Back to Mars again: one might conceivably replenish the N2 on Mars by re-directing nitrogen-rich comets or asteroids...
... the BIS, vol. 37, p. 254, 1984, adsabs.harvard.edu. 6 A. Crowl, J. Hunt, and A. Hein, “Embryo Space Colonisation to Overcome the Interstellar Time Distance Bottleneck,” Journal of the British Interplanetary, vol. 65, pp. 283–285, 2012. 7 A. Sandberg...
... Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and the asteroids. The final chapters cover space colonisation, the cost of space exploration and the relevance of space law. The volume is not illustrated, but includes a “timeline of key events”, chapter notes...