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Space colonization

Index Space colonization

Space colonization (also called space settlement, or extraterrestrial colonization) is permanent human habitation off the planet Earth. [1]

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A Canticle for Leibowitz

A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959.

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A Miracle of Science

A Miracle of Science is a science fiction webcomic written by Jon Kilgannon, with art by Mark Sachs.

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A Short History of the Future

A Short History of the Future is a book by W. Warren Wagar which was first published in 1989 and underwent two substantive revisions (1992 and 1999).

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Accelerando

Accelerando is a 2005 science fiction novel consisting of a series of interconnected short stories written by British author Charles Stross.

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Aeroponics

Aeroponics is the process of growing plants in an air or mist environment without the use of soil or an aggregate medium (known as geoponics).

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Alien invasion

The alien invasion or space invasion is a usual part of science fiction stories and film, in which extraterrestrials invade the Earth either to exterminate and supplant human life, enslave it under an intense state, harvest people for food, steal the planet's resources, or destroy the planet altogether.

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Alien: Covenant

Alien: Covenant is a 2017 science fiction horror film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by John Logan and Dante Harper, from a story by Michael Green and Jack Paglen.

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All Tomorrows

All Tomorrows is a science fiction novel written and illustrated by the Turkish artist C. M. Kosemen, under the pen name Nemo Ramjet.

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Alliance for Space Development

The Alliance for Space Development is a space advocacy organization dedicated to influencing space policy towards the goal of permanent human settlements in space.

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Angelo Vermeulen

Angelo Vermeulen (born 1971) is a Belgian visual artist.

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Ansari X Prize

The Ansari X Prize was a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks.

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Anti-aging movement

The anti-aging movement is a social movement devoted to eliminating or reversing aging, or reducing the effects of it.

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Artemis Project

The Artemis Project was a private spaceflight venture to establish a permanent, self-supporting base on the Moon by 2002.

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Asteroid impact avoidance

Asteroid impact avoidance comprises a number of methods by which near-Earth objects (NEO) could be diverted, preventing destructive impact events.

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Asteroids in fiction

Asteroids and asteroid belts are a staple of science fiction stories.

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Astrochicken

Astrochicken is the name given to a thought experiment expounded by theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson.

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Astronomical engineering

Engineering on an astronomical scale, or astronomical engineering, i.e., engineering involving operations with whole astronomical objects (planets, stars, etc.), is a known theme in science fiction, as well as a matter of recent scientific research and exploratory engineering.

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Aurora (novel)

Aurora is a 2015 novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson.

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Axelay

Axelay (アクスレイ, Akusurei) is a 1992 scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Konami of Japan for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Barbary (novel)

Barbary is a 1986 science fiction novel written by Vonda McIntyre about an orphan and her cat moving to a space station.

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Battle Isle

Battle Isle is a series of turn-based tactics video games developed in the 1990s by Blue Byte.

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Ben Finney

Ben Rudolph Finney (October 1, 1933 – May 23, 2017) was an American anthropologist known for his expertise in the history and the cultural and social anthropology of surfing, Polynesian navigation, and canoe sailing, as well as in the cultural and social anthropology of human space colonization.

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Bernal sphere

A Bernal sphere is a type of space habitat intended as a long-term home for permanent residents, first proposed in 1929 by John Desmond Bernal.

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Bioastronautics

Bioastronautics is a specialty area of biological and astronautical research which encompasses numerous aspects of biological, behavioral, and medical concern governing humans and other living organisms in a space flight environment; and includes design of payloads, space habitats, and life support systems.

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Biosphere 2

Biosphere 2 is an American Earth system science research facility located in Oracle, Arizona.

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Birth credit

A "choice-based, marketable, birth license plan" or "birth credits" for population control has been promoted by urban designer and environmental activist Michael E. Arth since the 1990s.

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Blade Runner

Blade Runner is a 1982 American-Hong Kong neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos.

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Blade Runner (franchise)

Blade Runner is an American neo-noir science fiction media franchise originating from the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, about the character of Rick Deckard.

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Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049 is a 2017 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green.

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Blue Origin

Blue Origin, LLC is an American privately funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company headquartered in Kent, Washington.

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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is a first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision.

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Centrifuge Accommodations Module

The Centrifuge Accommodations Module (CAM) is a cancelled element of the International Space Station.

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Circumstellar habitable zone

In astronomy and astrobiology, the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ), or simply the habitable zone, is the range of orbits around a star within which a planetary surface can support liquid water given sufficient atmospheric pressure.

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Civilization (video game)

Sid Meier's Civilization is the first in a series of turn-based "4X"-type strategy video game created by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley for MicroProse in 1991.

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Civilization: Call to Power

Civilization: Call to Power is a PC turn-based strategy game developed by Activision as a successor to the Civilization computer games by Sid Meier.

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Closed ecological system

Closed ecological systems (CES) are ecosystems that do not rely on matter exchange with any part outside the system.

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CoDominium

CoDominium is a series of future history novels written by American writer Jerry Pournelle, along with several co-authors, primarily Larry Niven.

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Coilgun

A coilgun or Gauss rifle is a type of projectile accelerator consisting of one or more coils used as electromagnets in the configuration of a linear motor that accelerate a ferromagnetic or conducting projectile to high velocity.

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Colonization

Colonization (or colonisation) is a process by which a central system of power dominates the surrounding land and its components.

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Colonization (disambiguation)

Colonization is the process of establishing a colony.

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Colonization of Antarctica

Colonization of Antarctica refers to having humans including families living permanently on the continent of Antarctica.

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Colonization of Mars

Mars is the focus of much scientific study about possible human colonization.

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Colonization of the asteroids

The asteroids have long been suggested as possible sites for human colonization.

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Colonization of the inner Solar System

Bodies in the inner Solar System have been considered for terraforming and space colonization.

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Colonization of the Moon

The colonization of the Moon is a proposed establishment of permanent human communities or robotic industries on the Moon.

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Colonization of the outer Solar System

Many parts of the outer Solar System have been considered for possible future colonization.

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Colony Wars

Colony Wars is a space combat simulator video game for the PlayStation developed and released by Psygnosis in 1997.

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Commercial astronaut

A commercial astronaut is a person trained to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a privately funded spacecraft.

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Cosmic Coasters

Cosmic Coasters is a board game designed by Andrew Looney and published by Looney Labs.

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Crater of eternal darkness

A crater of eternal darkness is a point on a body within the Solar System which is always in darkness.

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Creeper World

Creeper World is a series of web browser and standalone video games with both real-time strategy and tower defense elements developed by.

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Cyber Knight

is a science fiction Super Famicom and PC Engine role-playing video game that combines sci-fi space exploration with strategic robot combat.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (retitled Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in some later printings) is a science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1968.

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Dyson sphere

A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output.

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Earth analog

An Earth analog (also referred to as an Earth twin or Earth-like planet, though this latter term may refer to any terrestrial planet) is a planet or moon with environmental conditions similar to those found on Earth.

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Earth in science fiction

An overwhelming majority of fiction is set on or features the Earth.

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Effect of spaceflight on the human body

Humans venturing into the environment of space can have negative effects on the body.

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Embryo space colonization

Embryo space colonization is a theoretical interstellar space colonization concept that involves sending a robotic mission to a habitable terrestrial planet, dwarf planet, minor planet or natural satellite transporting frozen early-stage human embryos or the technological or biological means to create human embryos.

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Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest

Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest is the expansion pack for the real-time strategy game Empire Earth.

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Ethics of terraforming

The ethics of terraforming has constituted a philosophical debate within biology, ecology, and environmental ethics as to whether terraforming other worlds is an ethical endeavor.

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Exosquad

Exosquad is an American animated television series created by Universal Cartoon Studios for MCA TV's Universal Family Network syndicated programming block as a response to Japanese anime.

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Exploration of Mars

The planet Mars has been explored remotely by spacecraft.

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Exploration of Mercury

The exploration of Mercury has played only a minor role in the space interests of the world.

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Fictional universe of Avatar

In the 2009 science fiction film Avatar, director James Cameron conceived a fictional universe in which humans seek to mine unobtanium on the fictional exoplanetary moon, Pandora.

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Final Frontier

Final Frontier may refer to.

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Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station

The Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) is the first of two simulated Mars habitats (or Mars Analog Research Stations) established and maintained by the Mars Society.

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Foresight Institute

The Foresight Institute is a Palo Alto, California-based research non-profit dedicated to promoting the development of nanotechnology (and other emerging technologies).

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Freeciv

Freeciv is a single, and multiplayer, turn-based strategy game for workstations and personal computers inspired by the proprietary Sid Meier's Civilization series.

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Future of Humanity Institute

The Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Oxford investigating big-picture questions about humanity and its prospects.

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Gabriel Rothblatt

Gabriel Rothblatt, born October 5, 1982 is a technoprogressive political activist, a 2014 congressional candidate, and a writer and speaker in the futurist and transhumanist movements.

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Gateway Galactic

Gateway Galactic, Inc. was formed in 2014 in Ames, Iowa and is an aerospace company with the goal to reduce the cost of commercial spaceflight, and is currently developing an orbital propellant depot, Antaios.

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Gerard K. O'Neill

Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6, 1927 – April 27, 1992) was an American physicist and space activist.

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Global catastrophic risk

A global catastrophic risk is a hypothetical future event which could damage human well-being on a global scale, even crippling or destroying modern civilization.

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Goodspaceguy

Goodspaceguy (born Michael George Nelson; November 18, 1938) is an American perennial candidate from Washington state.

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Gravitational biology

Gravitational biology is the study of the effects gravity has on living organisms.

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Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition

Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition is a non-fiction book copyright 1990 by Ed Regis, an American author and educator, that presents a lighthearted look at scientific visionaries planning for a future with "post-biological" people, space colonization, nanotechnology, and cryonics.

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Ground Control (video game)

Ground Control is a real-time tactics video game developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Sierra Studios.

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Grow light

A grow light or plant light is an artificial light source, generally an electric light, designed to stimulate plant growth by emitting a light appropriate for photosynthesis.

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Guilty (video game)

Guilty is a graphical sci-fi adventure game, originally released in 1995 and published by Psygnosis.

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Gundam Universal Century technology

Universal Century technology are technologies from the Universal Century timeline of the Gundam anime metaseries.

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Heritage Universe

The Heritage Universe is a fictional setting created by Charles Sheffield for a series of science fiction novels.

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Herman Kahn

Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983) was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century.

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Horizons (Epcot)

Horizons was the name of a dark ride attraction at Epcot (then known as EPCOT Center), a theme park at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida.

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Horus Heresy (fictional event)

The Horus Heresy is a cornerstone event in the far future fictional universe created by Games Workshop as the campaign setting for its Warhammer 40,000 miniatures wargame.

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Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising

Hostile Waters, released as Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising in America, is a hybrid vehicle and strategy game released on the PC in 2001 by the British company Rage Games Limited.

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Human extinction

In futures studies, human extinction is the hypothetical end of the human species.

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Human guise

A human guise (also human disguise and sometimes human form) is a concept in fantasy, folklore, mythology, religion, literary tradition, iconography, and science fiction whereby non-human beings such as aliens, angels, demons, gods, monsters, robots, Satan, or shapeshifters are disguised to seem human.

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Human migration

Human migration is the movement by people from one place to another with the intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily in a new location.

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Human outpost

Human outposts; ByIris Fleischer, Olivia Haider, Morten W. Hansen, Robert Peckyno, Daniel Rosenberg and Robert E. Guinness; 30 September 2003; IAC Bremen, 2003 (29 Sept – 03 Oct 2003) and MoonMars Workshop (26-28 Sept 2003, Bremen).

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In situ resource utilization

In space exploration, in situ resource utilization (ISRU) is defined as "the collection, processing, storing and use of materials encountered in the course of human or robotic space exploration that replace materials that would otherwise be brought from Earth." ISRU is the practice of leveraging resources found or manufactured on other astronomical objects (the Moon, Mars, asteroids, etc.) to fulfill or enhance the requirements and capabilities of a space mission.

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In the Mouth of the Whale

In the Mouth of the Whale is a 2012 science fiction novel by Paul J. McAuley, the third in his Quiet War sequence.

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Intergalactic Touring Band

The Intergalactic Touring Band (IGTB) was not an actual music group but rather a science fiction pop music concept album released in 1977 by the now defunct Passport Records in America and Charisma Records in England.

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International Space Development Conference

The International Space Development Conference (ISDC) is the annual conference of the National Space Society (NSS).

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International Space Settlement Design Competition

The International Space Settlement Design Competition, more commonly known as "Spaceset" or "I-SSDC", is an annual competition founded by Anita Gale and Dick Edwards, and is supported (but no longer sponsored) by NASA (as the competition rents several NASA facilities for use during the competition).

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International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit.

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Interstellar travel

Interstellar travel is the term used for hypothetical crewed or uncrewed travel between stars or planetary systems.

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Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space

Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space (Stanley Schmidt and Robert Zubrin, eds., Wiley, 1996) is a book composed of a collection of factual articles on space colonization, several from recognized experts in the field.

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ITS launch vehicle

The ITS launch vehicle was a 2016 design for a privately funded orbital launch vehicle to be developed by SpaceX.

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John Desmond Bernal

John Desmond Bernal (10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was an Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular biology.

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John H. Moore

John Hartwell Moore (27 February 1939 – 10 August 2016) was Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

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Jupiter in fiction

The planet Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is a popular backdrop for science fiction stories and films.

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Jupiter's moons in fiction

Jupiter's extensive system of natural satellites – in particular the four large Galilean moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto) – has been a common science fiction setting.

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K. Eric Drexler

Kim Eric Drexler (born April 25, 1955) is an American engineer best known for popularizing the potential of molecular nanotechnology (MNT), from the 1970s and 1980s.

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K240

K240 is a real-time strategy computer game developed by Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd in 1994 for the Amiga.

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Keith Henson

Howard Keith Henson (born 1942) is an American electrical engineer and writer on space engineering, space law (Moon treaty), memetics, cryonics, evolutionary psychology and physical limitations of Transhumanism.

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Killzone (video game)

Killzone is a first-person shooter, developed by Netherlands-based Guerrilla Games and released on November 2, 2004 in North America.

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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (a; Konstanty Ciołkowski; 19 September 1935) was a Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory of ethnic Polish descent.

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Krafft Arnold Ehricke

Krafft Arnold Ehricke (March 24, 1917 – December 11, 1984) was a German rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonization.

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L5 Society

The L5 Society was founded in 1975 by Carolyn Meinel and Keith Henson to promote the space colony ideas of Gerard K. O'Neill.

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LaRouche movement

The LaRouche movement is a political and cultural network promoting Lyndon LaRouche and his ideas.

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Launch loop

A launch loop or Lofstrom loop is a proposed system for launching objects into space orbit using a moving cable-like system situated inside a sheath attached to the Earth at two ends and suspended above the atmosphere in the middle.

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Leviathan Wakes

Leviathan Wakes (2011) is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.

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List of emerging technologies

Emerging technologies are those technical innovations which represent progressive developments within a field for competitive advantage.

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List of futurologists

"Futurology" as a term was coined in the twentieth century.

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List of Mobile Fighter G Gundam characters

This is a list of characters featured in the Japanese anime television series and subsequent spin-offs.

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List of Princeton University people

This list of notable people associated with Princeton University includes faculty, staff, graduates and former students in the undergraduate program and all graduate programs, and others affiliated with the University.

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List of science fiction themes

The following is a list of articles about recurring themes in science fiction.

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List of visionary tall buildings and structures

This is a list of buildings and other structures that have been envisioned.

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Locomotion in space

Locomotion in space includes any variety of actions or methods used to move one's body through an environment with microgravity conditions.

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Macross

is a Japanese science fiction mecha anime media franchise, created by Shōji Kawamori of Studio Nue in 1982.

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Man After Man

Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future (1990) is a speculative book written by Scottish geologist Dougal Dixon and illustrated by Philip Hood.

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Maquis (World War II)

The Maquis were rural guerrilla bands of French Resistance fighters, called maquisards, during the Occupation of France in World War II.

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Mars Desert Research Station

The Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) is the second of four planned simulated Mars surface exploration habitats (or Mars Analogue Research Stations) owned and operated by the Mars Society.

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Marshall Savage

Marshall Thomas Savage (born 1955), is an advocate of space travel who wrote The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps and founded the Living Universe Foundation, which was designed to make plans for stellar exploration over the next 1,000 years.

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Martine Rothblatt

Martine Aliana Rothblatt (born 1954) is an American lawyer, author, and entrepreneur.

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Mass Driver 1

Constructed in 1976 and 1977, Mass Driver 1 was an early demonstration of the concept of the mass driver, a form of electromagnetic launcher, which in principle could also be configured as a rocket motor, using asteroidal materials for reaction mass and energized by solar or other electric power.

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Master of Orion

Master of Orion (MoO or MOO) is a turn-based, 4X science fiction computer strategy game released in 1993 by MicroProse on the MS-DOS and Mac OS operating systems.

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Materials science

The interdisciplinary field of materials science, also commonly termed materials science and engineering is the design and discovery of new materials, particularly solids.

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Medical treatment during spaceflight

It is inevitable that medical conditions of varying complexity, severity and emergency will occur during spaceflight missions with human participants.

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Mercury (planet)

Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System.

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Millennium 2.2

Millennium 2.2 is a resource management computer game by Ian Bird, released in 1989 for Atari ST, Amiga and MS-DOS.

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Mining the Sky

Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets, is a 1997 book by University of Arizona Planetary Sciences professor emeritus John S. Lewis that describes possible routes for accessing extraterrestrial resources, either for use on Earth or for enabling space colonization.

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Mobile Fighter G Gundam

Mobile Fighter G Gundam, also known in Japan as, is a 1994 Japanese animated television series produced by Sunrise and the fifth installment in the long running Gundam franchise.

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Moon Society

The Moon Society is a space advocacy organization, founded in 2000, and dedicated to promoting large-scale human exploration, research, and settlement of the Moon.

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NASA Space Settlement Contest

The NASA Space Settlement Contest is an annual design competition for 6-12th grade students sponsored by the NASA Ames Research Center and the NSS (National Space Society).

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National Space Society

The National Space Society (NSS) is an American international nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational and scientific organization specializing in space advocacy.

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Neuromancer

Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson.

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NewSpace

NewSpace—formerly alt.space; also new space, entrepreneurial space, astropreneurship, and commercial space—are umbrella terms for a movement and philosophy encompassing a globally emerging, private spaceflight industry.

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Nicolai Levashov

Nicolai or Nikolai Levashov (Никола́й Ви́кторович Левашо́в; February 8, 1961June 11, 2012) was a Russian occultist and psychic healer who wrote several books on life in the universe, Slavic history, the origin of mankind on Earth and other topics.

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Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov

Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (Никола́й Фёдорович Фёдоров; surname also Anglicized as "Fedorov") (June 9, 1829 – December 28, 1903) was a Russian Orthodox Christian philosopher, who was part of the Russian cosmism movement and a precursor of transhumanism.

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Nimrod Hunt

Nimrod Hunt is a science fiction novel by Charles Sheffield.

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Non-rocket spacelaunch

Non-rocket spacelaunch refers to concepts for launch into space where some or all of the needed speed and altitude are provided by something other than rockets, or by other than expendable rockets.

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Northern Secondary School (Toronto)

Northern Secondary School is a public high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Number One (Babylon 5)

Tessa Holloran, also known as Number One, is a recurring fictional character in the television series Babylon 5, and was portrayed by United States actress Marjorie Monaghan.

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O'Neill cylinder

The O'Neill cylinder (also called an O'Neill colony) is a space settlement design proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his 1976 book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space.

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Oasis (2017 film)

Oasis is a pilot episode of an intended 2017 British television drama series, based on Michel Faber's 2014 novel The Book of Strange New Things.

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Ocean colonization

Ocean colonization or ocean colonisation is the theory and practice of permanent human settlement of oceans.

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On the Steel Breeze

On the Steel Breeze is a science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds, which was first published by Gollancz on 26 September 2013.

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Orbital (The Culture)

In Iain M. Banks' fictional Culture universe, an Orbital (sometimes also simply called an O or a small ring) is a purpose-built space habitat forming a ring typically around 3 million km (1.9 million miles) in diameter.

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Our Final Hour

Our Final Hour is a 2003 book by the British Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees.

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Outline of Mercury (planet)

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Mercury: Mercury – smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System.

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Outline of science fiction

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to science fiction: Science fiction – a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a futuristic setting.

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Outline of society

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to society: Society – group of people sharing the same geographical or virtual territory and therefore subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

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Outline of space exploration

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to space exploration: Space exploration – use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space.

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Outline of space science

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to space science: Space science encompasses all of the scientific disciplines that involve space exploration and study natural phenomena and physical bodies occurring in outer space, such as space medicine and astrobiology.

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Outline of transhumanism

The following outline provides an overview of and a topical guide to transhumanism: Transhumanism – international intellectual and cultural movement that affirms the possibility and desirability of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to eliminate aging and to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.

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Oxygen Not Included

Oxygen Not Included is a survival simulation video game developed and published by Canadian studio Klei Entertainment.

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P.N.03

P.N.03, short for Product Number Zero Three, is a 2003 science-fiction third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom for the Nintendo GameCube.

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Pale Blue Dot (book)

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space is a 1994 book by Carl Sagan.

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Pantropy

Pantropy is a hypothetical process of space colonization in which rather than terraforming other planets or building space habitats suitable for human habitation, humans are modified (for example via genetic engineering) to be able to thrive in the existing environment.

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Peak of eternal light

A peak of eternal light (PEL) is a hypothetical point on the surface of an astronomical body that is always in sunlight.

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Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science

The Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science is given annually by the Phi Beta Kappa Society to authors of significant books in the fields of science and mathematics.

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Planetary habitability

Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural satellite's potential to have habitable environments hospitable to life, or its ability to generate life endogenously.

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Planetary surface

A planetary surface is where the solid (or liquid) material of the outer crust on certain types of astronomical objects contacts the atmosphere or outer space.

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Positronic brain

A positronic brain is a fictional technological device, originally conceived by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.

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Professor Weston

Professor Weston (full name Edward Rolles Weston) is arguably one of C. S. Lewis's greatest satanic characters.

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Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)

Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the craft (nuclear pulse propulsion).

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ProSpace

ProSpace is a nonprofit citizens space advocacy group that focuses on opening the space frontier for all individuals.

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Psychological and sociological effects of spaceflight

Psychological and sociological effects of space flight are important to understanding how to successfully achieve the goals of long-duration expeditionary missions.

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Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination

The Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination (QUID) is a proposed "space currency" created as a viral marketing campaign launched by Travelex with the London-based public relations and advertising firm, talkPR.

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RayForce

is a vertical space shooter style game by Taito released for the Taito F3 arcade hardware in 1994, and later ported to the Sega Saturn in 1995, Microsoft Windows in 1997, iOS in 2012 and Android in 2017.

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Reich Star

Reich Star (also known as Reichstar) is a role-playing game set in 2134, published by Creative Encounters in 1991.

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Revolutionary Wealth

Revolutionary Wealth is a book written by futurists Alvin Toffler and his wife Heidi Toffler, first published in 2006 by Knopf.

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Rifts (role-playing game)

Rifts is a multi-genre role-playing game created by Kevin Siembieda in August 1990 and published continuously by Palladium Books since then.

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Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American author, novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, and self-described agnostic mystic.

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Robert L. Park

Robert Lee Park (born January 16, 1931) is an American emeritus professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a former director of public information at the Washington office of the American Physical Society.

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Robo-Hunter

Robo-Hunter is a recurring strip in the British Comic 2000 AD, initially written by John Wagner and illustrated by Ian Gibson.

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RocketShip Tours

RocketShip Tours is an American space tourism company founded in 2008 by travel industry entrepreneur Jules Klar and which planned to provide sub-orbital human spaceflights to the paying public, in partnership with rocketplane developer XCOR Aerospace.

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Roger Zelazny

Roger Joseph Zelazny (May 13, 1937 – June 14, 1995) was an American poet and writer of fantasy and science fiction short stories and novels, best known for The Chronicles of Amber.

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Rotating wheel space station

A rotating wheel space station is a hypothetical wheel-shaped space station that rotates about its axis, thus creating an environment of artificial gravity.

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Russian cosmism

Russian cosmism is a philosophical and cultural movement that emerged in Russia in the early 20th century.

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Scientific research on the International Space Station

Scientific research on the International Space Station is a collection of experiments that require one or more of the unusual conditions present in low Earth orbit.

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Search the Sky

Search the Sky is a satirical science fiction novel by American writers Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth, first published in 1954 by Ballantine Books.

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Self-reconfiguring modular robot

Modular self-reconfiguring robotic systems or self-reconfigurable modular robots are autonomous kinematic machines with variable morphology.

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Self-replicating machines in fiction

A self-replicating machine is a type of autonomous robot that is capable of reproducing itself autonomously using raw materials found in the environment, thus exhibiting self-replication in a way analogous to that found in nature.

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Self-replicating spacecraft

The idea of self-replicating spacecraft has been applied – in theory – to several distinct "tasks".

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Sex in space

The idea of human sexual activity in the weightlessness or extreme environments of outer space – sex in space – presents difficulties for the performance of most sexual activities due to Newton's third law.

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Shackleton Energy Company

Shackleton Energy Company was formed in 2007 in Del Valle, Texas to build equipment and technologies necessary for mining the Moon.

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Shadowgrounds

Shadowgrounds is a top-down shooter for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, developed by Frozenbyte.

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Solar analog

Solar-type star, solar analogs (also analogues), and solar twins are stars that are particularly similar to the Sun.

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Space Access Society

The Space Access Society (SAS) is an organization dedicated to increasing the viability and reducing the cost of commercial access to space travel.

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Space advocacy

Space advocacy is supporting or advocating for space exploration, space colonization and private spaceflight.

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Space and survival

Space and survival refers to the idea that the long-term survival of the human species and civilization requires proper use of the resources of outer space and the need for space colonization and space science.

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Space Apprentice

Space Apprentice, also known as Probationers (Russian title: Стажёры, Stazhory), is one of the early novels of Russian science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

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Space archaeology

In archaeology, space archaeology is the research-based study of various human-made items found in space, their interpretation as clues to the adventures mankind has experienced in space, and their preservation as cultural heritage.

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Space architecture

Space architecture, in its simplest definition, is the theory and practice of designing and building inhabited environments in outer space.

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Space colony

Space colony may refer to.

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Space Colony (video game)

Space Colony is a real-time strategy video game developed by Firefly Studios and published by Gathering of Developers in 2003.

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Space Development Network

Space Development Network (SDN) is a global co-operative for professionals, researchers, students and enthusiasts working towards the Development of Space Technologies, Space Exploration and Resources and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

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Space exploration

Space exploration is the discovery and exploration of celestial structures in outer space by means of evolving and growing space technology.

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Space Exploration Alliance

On June 3, 2004, thirteen of the United States' premier space advocacy groups, industry associations and space policy organizations teamed up to form an umbrella organization known as the Space Exploration Alliance.

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Space Football: One on One

Space Football: One on One, known in Japan as, is a video game developed by Bits Studios and released in 1992 exclusively for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

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Space Frontier Foundation

The Space Frontier Foundation is an American space advocacy nonprofit corporation organized to promote the interests of increased involvement of the private sector, in collaboration with government, in the exploration and development of space.

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Space geostrategy

Geostrategy in space (also referred to as astrostrategy) deals with the strategic considerations of location and resources in outer space territory.

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Space habitat

A space habitat (also called a space colony, space settlement, orbital habitat, orbital settlement or orbital colony) is a type of space station, intended as a permanent settlement rather than as a simple way-station or other specialized facility.

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Space industry

Space industry refers to economic activities related to manufacturing components that go into Earth's orbit or beyond, delivering them to those regions, and related services.

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Space Is the Place

Space Is the Place is an 85-minute Afrofuturist science fiction film made in 1972 and released in 1974.

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Space manufacturing

Space manufacturing is the production of manufactured goods in an environment outside a planetary atmosphere.

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Space Marines (film)

Space Marines is a 1996 film directed by John Weidner.

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Space Nursing Society

The Space Nursing Society is an international space advocacy organization devoted to space nursing and space exploration by registered nurses.

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Space Pirate Captain Harlock (film)

is a 2013 Japanese 3D CG anime science fiction film directed by Shinji Aramaki.

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Space Studies Institute

Space Studies Institute is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1977 by the late Princeton University Professor Dr.

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Space warfare in fiction

Space warfare has served as a central theme within the science-fiction genre.

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Space: Above and Beyond

Space: Above and Beyond is an American science fiction television show on the FOX Network, created and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong.

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Spacecraft

A spacecraft is a vehicle or machine designed to fly in outer space.

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Spacefaring

To be spacefaring is to be capable of and active in space travel or space transport, the operation of spacecraft or spaceplanes.

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Spaceflight

Spaceflight (also written space flight) is ballistic flight into or through outer space.

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Stanford torus

The Stanford torus is a proposed NASA design for a space habitat capable of housing 10,000 to 140,000 permanent residents.

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Steady-state economy

A steady-state economy is an economy consisting of a constant stock of physical wealth (capital) and a constant population size.

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Stellaris (video game)

Stellaris is a 4X grand strategy video game developed and published by Paradox Interactive.

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Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938) is an American writer, best known as editor of the Whole Earth Catalog.

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Supremacy: Your Will Be Done

Supremacy: Your Will Be Done, released as Overlord in the US, is a strategy video game designed by David Perry & Nick Bruty and produced by Probe Software.

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Survival in space

Survival in space may refer to.

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Suspended animation in fiction

Suspended animation in fiction is the temporary halting of life processes of fictional characters followed by their later revival.

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Tales of Legendia

, is a role-playing video game that was developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation 2 as the seventh main title in their Tales series.

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Tali'Zorah

Tali'Zorah is a fictional character of the quarian alien race in BioWare's Mass Effect franchise, who serves as a party member (or "squadmate") in all three games in the Mass Effect trilogy.

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Technogaianism

Technogaianism (a portmanteau word combining "techno-" for technology and "gaian" for Gaia philosophy) is a bright green environmentalist stance of active support for the research, development and use of emerging and future technologies to help restore Earth's environment.

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Terraforming

Terraforming (literally, "Earth-shaping") of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to the environment of Earth to make it habitable by Earth-like life.

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Terraforming of Mars

Terraforming of Mars is a hypothetical process of planetary engineering by which the surface and climate of Mars would be deliberately changed to make large areas of the environment hospitable to humans, thus making the colonization of Mars safer and sustainable.

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Terran Federation (Starship Troopers)

The Terran Federation is the fictional government of Earth and her space colonies in Robert A. Heinlein's 1959 science fiction novel Starship Troopers.

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The Candidate for Goddess

is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yukiru Sugisaki.

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The Day After Tomorrow (TV special)

The Day After Tomorrow (also known as Into Infinity in the United Kingdom) is a 1975 British science-fiction television drama produced by Gerry Anderson between the first and second series of Space: 1999.

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The Dream Millennium

The Dream Millennium is a 1974 science fiction novel by James White.

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The Expanse (novel series)

The Expanse is a series of science fiction novels series (and related novellas and short stories) by James S. A. Corey, the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck.

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The Expanse (TV series)

The Expanse is an American science fiction television series developed by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, based on ''The Expanse'' series of novels by James S. A. Corey.

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The Face-Eater

The Face-Eater is an original novel written by Simon Messingham and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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The Forever War (comics)

The Forever War is a 1988 Belgian science fiction graphic novel trilogy drawn by Marvano and closely based on the award-winning The Forever War novel by Joe Haldeman, who has noted that he "supplied all of the dialogue and scripted like a movie".

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The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space

The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space is a 1976 book by Gerard K. O'Neill, a road map for what the United States might do in outer space after the Apollo program, the drive to place a man on the Moon and beyond.

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The Horus Heresy (novels)

The Horus Heresy is an ongoing series of science fantasy set in the fictional Warhammer 40,000 setting of tabletop miniatures wargame company Games Workshop.

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The Jesus Incident

The Jesus Incident (1979) is the second science fiction novel set in the ''Destination: Void'' universe by the American author Frank Herbert and poet Bill Ransom.

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The Jetsons

The Jetsons is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera, originally airing in primetime from September 23, 1962, to March 17, 1963, then later in syndication, with new episodes in 1985 to 1987 as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera block.

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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (usually referred to as F&SF) is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Fantasy House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press.

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The Man in the High Castle

The Man in the High Castle (1962) is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.

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The Millennial Project

The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps by Marshall T. Savage is a book (published in 1992 and reprinted in 1994 with an introduction by Arthur C. Clarke) in the field of Exploratory engineering that gives a series of concrete stages the author believes will lead to interstellar colonization.

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The Minority Report

"The Minority Report" is a 1956 science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in Fantastic Universe.

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The Prince (anthology)

The Prince is a science fiction compilation by Jerry Pournelle and S. M. Stirling.

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The Psychotechnic League

The Psychotechnic League is a future history created by American science fiction writer Poul Anderson.

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The Quiet War (novel)

The Quiet War is a 2008 science fiction novel written by Paul McAuley.

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The Seed of Earth

The Seed of Earth is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction in June 1962, and expanded as an Ace Double in 1962.

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The World at the End of Time

World at the End of Time is a 1990 hard science fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl.

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This Alien Shore

This Alien Shore is a science fiction novel by American author Celia S. Friedman.

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Timeline of the far future

While predictions of the future can never be absolutely certain, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of far-future events, if only in the broadest outline.

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Timothy Leary

Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions.

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Titan Maximum

Titan Maximum is an American stop motion animated television series created by Tom Root and Matthew Senreich.

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Transhuman Space

Transhuman Space (THS) is a role-playing game published by Steve Jackson Games as parts of the "Powered by GURPS" (Generic Universal Role-Playing System) line.

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Transhumanism

Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international intellectual movement that aims to transform the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellect and physiology.

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University Rover Challenge

The University Rover Challenge (URC) by the Mars Society is a robotics competition for university level students that challenges teams to design and build a rover that would be of use to early explorers on Mars.

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Virgle

Project Virgle, dubbed by Virgin and Google as Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes, was a Google April Fools' joke featured on the main page of Google Search on April 1, 2008.

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Voodoo Science

Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud is a book published in 2000 by physics professor Robert L. Park, critical of research that falls short of adhering to the scientific method.

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Wanderers (2014 film)

Wanderers is a 2014 Swedish science fiction short film created by the digital artist and animator Erik Wernquist.

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Woodward effect

The Woodward effect, also referred to as a Mach effect, is part of a hypothesis proposed by James F. Woodward in 1990.

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World government

World government or global government is the notion of a common political authority for all of humanity, yielding a global government and a single state that exercises authority over the entire Earth.

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Xeelee Sequence

The Xeelee Sequence is a series of hard science fiction space opera novels, novellas, and short stories written by British science fiction author Stephen Baxter.

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Yuri Kondratyuk

Yuriy Vasilievich Kondratyuk (real name Aleksandr Ignatyevich Shargei, Олександр Гнатович Шаргей, Oleksandr Hnatovych Sharhei) (June 21, 1897 – February 1942) was a Soviet engineer and mathematician.

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Zero Tolerance (video game)

Zero Tolerance is a 1994 video game developed by Technopop and published by Accolade exclusively for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis video game console.

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Zip Zap

Zip Zap is an action game developed by Ian Weatherburn for Imagine Software and released for the ZX Spectrum in 1983.

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2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future

Princeton physicist Gerard K. O'Neill's 1981 book, 2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future was an attempt to predict the technological and social state of humanity 100 years in the future.

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2312 (novel)

2312 is a science fiction novel by American writer Kim Stanley Robinson, published in 2012.

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26th century

The 26th century of the anno Domini (common) era will span from January 1, 2501, to December 31, 2600, of the Gregorian calendar.

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2suit

The 2suit (alternately 2-Suit or twosuit) (abbrv. 2S) is a garment designed to facilitate intimacy in weightless environments.

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4th millennium in fiction

Fictional depictions of the 4th millennium AD (3001-4000 AD) have appeared across nearly all media.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_colonization

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