Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 12:14:06 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] How do you build a city in space?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Other than misusing "terraforming", and a few other details, it's actually
pretty good.

Excerpt:
Space cities come in three basic models. The classic one is to terraform a
nearby Earth-like object, by using massive geo-engineering projects or
bio-domes to create a lunar or Martian metropolis. The second is the low-Earth
orbit model: this expands upon the currently inhabited region of space. Think
of the International Space Station as a government fort, around which
commercial trading posts, homesteads and finally urban areas develop. Then
there is the free space model, basically floating cylinders with artificial
gravity, surviving by digesting the natural resources of outer space. As the
saying goes in the space community: once you\222re out of Earth\222s gravity well,
you\222re halfway to anywhere.
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<http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/may/16/how-build-city-in-space-nasa-elon-musk-spacex>

mark "what about the Rasta space station?"