About this deck
From Artemis crews on the lunar south pole to the gigascale fantasies of Dyson swarms — a sober tour of what we might do beyond the atmosphere, and what we will probably never do. Forecasts to 2050. Scenarios to 2100. Speculation beyond. Key sections include: Off-world. The next century of leaving Earth.; Three time horizons; Why getting anywhere is hard; Who is going, and when; The Moon as base camp; The next world we might break a leg on; Built worlds in free space; Could we make Mars Earth-like?; The trillion-dollar rock myth; What fraction survives the filter?.
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