Congress biggest mistake of the century :Multi Billion International Space Station to be abandoned

[A HERETIC I AM]

37. I have no idea how old you are, but this is something I have been interested in since the 70's

and trust me when I say this, we are a CENTURY away from being able to put more than a few dozen people AT MOST into orbit for an extended period of time.

And that is not because of the lack of the appropriate technology (which has existed since the 70's) but rather political and financial will.

You watched the Movie "Elysium" I take it and think it is going to be reality. It won't be.

Google Gerard K. O'Neil. Get his book "The High Frontier"

Google "Colonies In Space"

Buy that one too.

Search for the July, 1976 National Geographic. The cover story was this subject matter.

Here's what a space station that could sustain several thousand people (Edit) Actually several million) would look like from the inside. Ten miles long and 4 miles across;



Here is a rendering of a Toroid style station;



We as a nation could have had these facilities 30 years ago, or at the very least 20 years ago and be building more as we speak, but we don't. O'Neil spelled out, nearly 40 years ago, how stations of that size could be built and how they would pay for themselves. His ultimate vision was that humans would move off the planet and it could be turned into a global nature preserve/wildlife park and allow humanity to survive and flourish in space. He was a great man and a revolutionary thinker.

The ISS is a NECESSARY first step in this long process and the process MUST CONTINUE, not just for the 1 % but for the future of mankind.

Before you go spouting silly notions about subjects you clearly have no real idea about, please do a bit of research.

I am so far ahead of you on this subject at the age of 55 it isn't even funny.