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- przemeklach, on 01/30/2009, -2/+24I would love to live on the death star.
- GoldieLocks7300, on 01/30/2009, -2/+23Wow, amazing work
- TheEpicChocobo, on 07/28/2009, -2/+19Very interesting and great visuals.
- CDoug03, on 01/31/2009, -0/+15The contractors who were blown up on the unfinished Deathstar were not vicitims!
- Morrison1002, on 01/31/2009, -0/+13Dugg for the world inside of a huge baggett
- nullcodes, on 01/31/2009, -2/+14When I was a kid i used to think this would happen in my lifetime. Now I think it may not even happen, and if it does it'll be at least 500 years from now.
- novenator, on 01/31/2009, -1/+12I liked the Halo World. It would be nice to have gravity (I know, I know, its not really gravity) on a space station.
- MasterGrief, on 01/31/2009, -0/+10Because aliens are involved, duh
- directedition, on 01/31/2009, -0/+9I like to think it's already happening somewhere else.
- jer21, on 01/31/2009, -0/+642 Dart Vader Way, Apartment A
The Death Star - ZephyrNinety, on 01/31/2009, -0/+6http://z.about.com/d/kidstvmovies/1/0/J/H/walle010 ...
- chaoswings, on 01/31/2009, -0/+6If Star Wars taught me anything it would be that any time you create a weapon of mass destruction someone will come along and destroy it in the most asinine way.
- inactive, on 01/31/2009, -0/+6nice rip off of the rama revealed cover art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_Revealed - Tyrghast, on 01/31/2009, -0/+5"This is the cover of Karl Schroeder's novel Pirate Sun, the third book in the Virga trilogy - all of which take place in a giant glob of atmosphere floating in space. People live in massive, rotating tubes or on floating rocks, using several strategically-placed artificial suns."
Wow that sounds freakishly cool. - lansuggs, on 01/31/2009, -0/+5Me too, but only for the reason that perhaps someday an aspiring young psychokinetic prodigy can mistake my home for a miniature sized satellite while his old and experienced mentor can correct him with a phrase that will be often quoted on a social news website in the distant future in another galaxy.
- inactive, on 01/31/2009, -0/+5http://io9.com/photogallery/megaspacestructure/100 ...
This reminds me of that one city in Mass Effect. - jer21, on 01/31/2009, -0/+5They knew the risks going into it...
- oriondr, on 01/31/2009, -0/+5Obviously you wouldn't/couldn't build a dyson sphere around a star large enough to ever supernova.. you would build one around a white dwarf which has already gone through the red giant phase.
*pushes up glasses.* - brsteve88, on 01/31/2009, -0/+5I like how in the Ringworld one you can see shadows that would be made from the artificial day and night dividers. I just remember that being in the book "Ringworld" by Larry Niven. Kind of wish I wasn't geeky enough to know that.
- onionoino, on 01/31/2009, -0/+4Space is the place
- phatcat77, on 01/31/2009, -0/+4Cool looking but most(or really all) of these are pretty non scientific, and hold on to the preconseption that humanity will not change in some way by the time these things are made. It would be better for humans to live in smaller self sustained colonies than huge Halo'esque ring planets (also why would you want to go back to living in gravity once we leave Earth?)
- Xondar, on 01/31/2009, -1/+5http://io9.com/photogallery/megaspacestructure/100 ...
This is NOT a "World Ship," it's a ripoff of the Liberator from Blake's 7. - tdawson2012, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3It's a physiological thing. It's been shown that astronauts lose bone density during extended space missions. If you spend too much time in zero gravity your muscles will atrophy and your bones will become brittle. So gravity is an essential part of our existence, on earth or not.
- jer21, on 02/01/2009, -0/+3you'll need a tray
- akerasi, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3You'd hijack asteroids and mine them, of course. Much easier than lifting from a gravity well.
- tloftxj, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3clerks
- oo7b0nds, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3that was a long sentence.
- directedition, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3With all the space cities, I really think the one from Dark City should be in there.
- phatcat77, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3That only matters if you want to go back onto a planet or some other gravitational body. I'm saying once we are up there (and can stay up there) why come back?
- tgc1, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3Well the sooner we get robots to become ubiquitous. The sooner they can start building us this stuff. Make no mistake, they'll be the ones building this stuff in our future. They're already building our cars.
- Terasiel, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3I've had a passionate, never-ending hatred for space-based megastructures ever since I read "Blame!".
- BCPneumatics, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3Personally I am glad there are people willing to filter 4chan for the few good items and post them here.
- Peko, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3I'll have the penne al'arabiata
- malex, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3Image #5, genius.
But yeah... These are okay for "high-fantasy" scifi concepts, but not much that would ever be built in reality, much less "where we'll live." - Photog, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2Are we really gonna live on a steampunk deathstar?
- riggs32, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2This just made me super bummed that im not going to live to see any of these. why the hell couldn't i be born in another 1000 years
- TequilaCollins, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2OK, I see a problem here. There's 8 spheres. 4 of them are connected to each other into a tetrahedron. The other are connected in the same way. But they do not connect to each other. It would actually require a spaceship to visit the other half of the structure.
But it looks cool. :-) - ThatGeek, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2http://tinyurl.com/bjbx8j
i would rather live on one of these - derbloodlust, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2@ phatcat77: Eh, but if you have brittle bones and weak ass muscles, you wouldn't have the means of grabbing onto something to prevent yourself from flinging against a wall and breaking bones if you were to be pushed. Unless you want everything padded I guess.
I suppose you could strap into a workout machine to keep your muscles and bones in shape, but I'm sure you'd have to devote a lot of time to it just to keep your bones strong. After all, our bones are subjected to gravity all day every day.
The rotating ring design seems to make the most sense. If you're such a gravity hater, just stay away from the outer ring. - rheaume, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2Not that impressed, and buried for not including a dyson sphere
- Gareth321, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2Computers recently overtook the virtual "speed" of a human brain. The issue, as always, is sentience. Once a computer can create its own neural pathways, reason and retionalize, there is no potential limit to its capabilities within our physical realm [though discoveries outside of our realm can't be ruled out]. We just can't figure out what exactly sentience IS, let alone reproduce it artificially.
I think one day, when many of the conservative religious laws have been abolished, we'll see a brain grown entirely in a pod, designed to interact with an electronic shell attached to a computer. There could be no better 'sentience' then a human brain integrated into a computer. - inactive, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2Buried for the word "you" in the headline.
I'm funny like that. - Culyt, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2Blame! was ***** awesome.
- derbloodlust, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2Yeah I thought it was the Citadel at first.
- 15thPD, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2Buried for lack of naquada-laced warheads for protection from the Goa'Uld.
- Frostek, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2No Iain M. Banks conceptual art? :-(
- kidwithsword, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2This is what they predicted in the '70s that we'd be living in today.
- Steeeeve1, on 02/02/2009, -0/+2Not pictured: How the hell we're going to put that ***** up there.
- Rhydeble, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2http://io9.com/photogallery/megaspacestructure/100 ...
and this is the deathstar
stop being so obvious - jmahnn, on 01/31/2009, -0/+2Give it 50 years and we'll have turned the Earth into just that.
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