Comments on: NASA space settlements as garden suburbs https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/nasa-space-settlements-as-garden-suburbs/ Gardenvisit.com Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:48:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/nasa-space-settlements-as-garden-suburbs/#comment-2451 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:48:14 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5151#comment-2451 Yes. The exploding human population has had devastating effects on our ‘fellow creatures’, not to mention the environment…Nor have we quite sorted out the lifestyle/economics question. I suppose that is why the concept of sustainable development has become popular.

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/nasa-space-settlements-as-garden-suburbs/#comment-2450 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:14:40 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5151#comment-2450 A flight over North Asia leaves one with the impression that Earth has sufficient space to increase its population tenfold, as it has often done before, but I do not think this policy would be very fair to our ‘fellow creatures’.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/nasa-space-settlements-as-garden-suburbs/#comment-2449 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:33:08 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5151#comment-2449 Fortuneately, many of the lessons learnt while pushing the boundaries of space exploration also give us a greater appreciation of what we have here on Earth.

We can only hope that today’s environmental crises imbues as all with an ongoing respectful attitude to our own planet as well as other planets.

As for population: the more you research population the more complex the situation becomes…what rate of growth is too little (think Japan and attempts to encourage population growth) and what rate of growth is too great (think China and attempts to limit population growth)?

]]> By: Marta Ratajszczak https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/nasa-space-settlements-as-garden-suburbs/#comment-2448 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:40:57 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5151#comment-2448 Personally, I think we should spend more time and effort looking after the miracles we’ve got here, on Earth, then trying to create a new one in space. What would be that for – just so we can have another one to destroy?

]]> By: Tony https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/nasa-space-settlements-as-garden-suburbs/#comment-2447 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:24:10 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5151#comment-2447 Awesome picture, and in a post-scarcity society where technology reduced the cost of manufacturing down next to nothing (mastery of manufacturing technology, personal manufacturing etc), this is the obvious answer to over-population. Maybe they’ve got concept pictures of coverd valleys on Mars holding in an artificial atmosphere and a thriving garden city? Very interesting blog by the way.

]]> By: Tom Turner https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/nasa-space-settlements-as-garden-suburbs/#comment-2446 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 05:05:46 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5151#comment-2446 Wiki lists myriad experiments on the International Space Station but not useful results from them, so it looks like money wasted to me. The one great result of the project is to illustrate the ‘delights’ of life on a space station. But I would enjoy a trip on Virgin Galactic, club class of course.

]]> By: Christine https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/nasa-space-settlements-as-garden-suburbs/#comment-2445 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:28:19 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=5151#comment-2445 It is strange to see space looking remarkably like Earth. I wonder whether Bruneschelli designing in the 1800s [ http://www.destination360.com/europe/italy/florence/duomo ] would have imagined the 2000s producing Foster’s ‘Armadillo’ in Glascow?
[ http://www.flickr.com/photos/54549576@N00/3548739305 ]

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