Not to question the academic and professional
qualifications of this brilliant theorist, not at all.
That a researcher in space habitation would
take his knowledge and transform it to a
potential solution for the world's population
crowding the planet seems a tad impulsive.
There's yet room on this planet, apart from
the fact that Earth has a long way to go before
its sun withdraws from its essential-to-existence
nurturance; say five billion years? We can wait.
So the idea to make use of a near asteroid as a
functioning space station specific to providing
a habitat for a mere 700,000 people whose lives
would emulate those of us remaining on Earth
seems of questionable value. The asteroid itself
revolves around the sun, as limited a life as our Earth.
The chosen near-Earth asteroid engineered to
provide the essence of gravity, the plan to build arable
fields and homes as a long-term project for near-term
occupation brings to mind penal colonies of yore.
Might an intended population reflect the adventurous
or hordes of suicidal-minded volunteers escaping the
social bankruptcy of alienation and societal dysfunction?
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