In the 1970?s the Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University held a series of space colony summer studies which explored the possibilities of humans living in giant orbiting spaceships. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed and a number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made.
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Space Colony Art from the 1970s
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Space Colony Art from the 1970s
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I love this art. Really amazing stuff.
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These really are great. I don't comment in all your threads because I usually don't have anything to add, but I do enjoy them.
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This type of artwork will one day be studied as expressions of our current mythologies.
Many of us don't see them as mythology because if we did they would no longer fulfill their cultural purpose.
In many ways, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and the real-world NASA manned missions created a generation of people who essentially made science fiction their religion, though what they thought they were doing was simply looking into the future. Instead of looking into the future, however, what they were actually doing was looking into their own psyches.
I believe that some people in the distant future will worship Neil Armstrong as a Jesus-like figure. Buzz Aldrin will be St. Peter. You heard it here first.
Many of us don't see them as mythology because if we did they would no longer fulfill their cultural purpose.
In many ways, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and the real-world NASA manned missions created a generation of people who essentially made science fiction their religion, though what they thought they were doing was simply looking into the future. Instead of looking into the future, however, what they were actually doing was looking into their own psyches.
I believe that some people in the distant future will worship Neil Armstrong as a Jesus-like figure. Buzz Aldrin will be St. Peter. You heard it here first.
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You've been dipping into the Joseph Campbell again. 
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Oh sure. All the time.dualstow wrote: You've been dipping into the Joseph Campbell again.
He helps me to understand a lot of things that otherwise wouldn't make any sense.
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This will be the opening sermon at every church, "The Most Astounding Fact About The Universe" (3:34 (I've posted this a couple times before, but it's awesome!)):MediumTex wrote: This type of artwork will one day be studied as expressions of our current mythologies.
Many of us don't see them as mythology because if we did they would no longer fulfill their cultural purpose.
In many ways, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and the real-world NASA manned missions created a generation of people who essentially made science fiction their religion, though what they thought they were doing was simply looking into the future. Instead of looking into the future, however, what they were actually doing was looking into their own psyches.
I believe that some people in the distant future will worship Neil Armstrong as a Jesus-like figure. Buzz Aldrin will be St. Peter. You heard it here first.
http://youtu.be/9D05ej8u-gU