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I think I'd get murderized if I try to get it moved to sci-fi... :-p

'We would weigh around 20lbs' But would it be? As a novelty, for a short time maybe. Longer term probably increasingly uncomfortable -...

Artificial habitats make conditions just right. Gravity is just one of the potential constraints, but with rotation is readily solvable...

My calcs show this to have .112g on the inside surface. I'd weigh 20lbs. Less than the Moon, where I'd weigh 29lbs.

No reason to think they are artificial and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - but making them increases the views and...

Um, sci-fi stories are about "the context of possible engineering" that doesn't currently exist. In our actual science forums like the...

... then we can have it invent any kind of propulsion we want - even wormholes and warp drives - and all of us can go anywhere we want...

I think real world experience suggests lots of humans are quite willing to reduce their birthrates and choose small family sizes - and...

When several times the mass of an asteroid is needed for reaction mass just to push an asteroid to modest delta-v such as moving around...

Coming in on this a bit late to manage a point by point discussion, but I am of the pessimistic persuasion in this. At the most basic...

You're being too planet-centric. The future of space exploration is living in space habitats that we construct. Try reading, "The High...

That sounds like a personal theory to me...

It seems to me a no-brainer in terms of resources that any ship would carry the blueprint for life and not generations of live human...

The last section sums it up, in my opinion: Unless all these steps are taken, humans cannot successfully travel to and inhabit other...

so at best it would be like condemning yourself and your unborn generations to live out their lives on a cruise ship but with fake food...