Word: moone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will have been perfected, the world's population will have doubled, at least. By that time 500,000 "space colonies" might have to be put in orbit. Where will the material needed for such colonies be found (without ruining the ecology of both the earth and the moon)? Who, above all, will be willing to live out there...
Another of the firm's innovations will add speed and accuracy to a deep-water sailor's celestial navigation. Taking sextant sights on sun, moon or stars from the pitching deck of a small craft is difficult under the best of circumstances. Most skippers turn to a crew member to note the precise time of their measurements, and such teamwork allows ample room for error. With no one to note the time for his sights, Oxy's skipper will rely on a specially designed quartz chronometer built into the handle of his sextant...
...Myung Moon...
...Princeton gathering, O'Neill and others discussed the establishment of the first colony at a libration point called L5, which lies in the moon's orbit at a spot equidistant from earth and moon. Simultaneously, the space colonizers would set up a small mining base on the moon. Its purpose: to provide most of the building blocks for the colonies. Rich in aluminum, titanium, iron and other essential materials-including oxygen-lunar rocks could be fired off by a continuously catapulting device. Slowing as they climb out of the moon's gravity, these building blocks would eventually...
...early inhabitants would probably be "hardhat types," O'Neill says, but after the initial construction is finished almost anyone with a spirit of adventure could live at L5. The cost would be somewhat more than that of the $25 billion Project Apollo, which placed men on the moon, but no more than a fifth of the estimated minimal $600 billion tab for Project Independence, the U.S. effort to free itself from dependence on foreign energy sources long before the year...