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    Gerard Kitchen O'Neill (February 6, 1927 – April 27, 1992) was an American physicist and space activist. As a faculty member of Princeton University, he...
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    An O'Neill cylinder (also called an O'Neill colony) is a space settlement concept proposed by American physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in his 1976 book The...
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  • Carolyn Meinel and Keith Henson to promote the space colony ideas of Gerard K. O'Neill. In 1987, the L5 Society merged with the National Space Institute...
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  • organization that was founded in 1977 by Princeton University Professor Gerard K. O'Neill. In 2009 SSI moved its operations from its long-term base in Princeton...
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  • through understanding of the Earth's comprehensive life support system. Gerard K. O'Neill does not acknowledge the term "spome", but writes about the concept...
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  • 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...
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    purpose of speculating on designs for future space colonies, Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill proposed Island One, a modified Bernal sphere with a diameter of only...
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  • design differs from the classical designs produced in the 1970s by Gerard K. O'Neill and NASA in that it would use carbon nanotubes instead of steel, allowing...
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  • them.) In general, like previous space advocates such as Princeton's Gerard K. O'Neill, Lewis responds to the limits to growth on Earth with detailed plans...
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    out someone who was working on extraterrestrial resources. He found Gerard K. O'Neill of Princeton University, a physicist famous for his work on storage...
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    design differs from the classical designs produced in the 1970s by Gerard K. O'Neill and NASA in that it would use carbon nanotubes instead of steel, allowing...
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    to promote settlement by building space stations at these points. Gerard K. O'Neill suggested in 1974 that the Earth–Moon L5 point, in particular, could...
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  • year (two semesters) from Fall 1974 to Spring 1975. In early 1975 Gerard K. O'Neill came to Swarthmore to deliver a speech on space colonies. This re-ignited...
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    subject was the book The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by Gerard K. O'Neill in 1977 which was followed the same year by Colonies in Space by T...
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  • "Gerard Kitchen O'Neill". Physics Today. 46 (2): 98. Bibcode:1993PhT....46b..97D. doi:10.1063/1.2808821. Daniels, Lee A. (April 29, 1992). "Gerard K....
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    by Arthur C. Clarke in 1950, and was developed in more detail by Gerard K. O'Neill, working with the Space Studies Institute, focusing on the use of...
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  • Braun, and the L5 Society, founded in 1975 based on the concepts of Gerard K. O'Neill. The society has an elected volunteer Board of Directors and a Board...
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  • human space habitats resemble O'Neill cylinders, a theoretical space habitat model proposed by physicist Gerard K. O'Neill in 1976. Gregg Landaker and Gary...
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    replace energy lost through synchrotron radiation and other processes. Gerard K. O'Neill proposed the use of storage rings as building blocks for a collider...
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    founded by fans of the Space Colonization and Industrialization work of Gerard K. O'Neill, to become the present-day National Space Society. In its earliest...
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  • machine built in 1961 to demonstrate the feasibility of this concept. Gerard K. O'Neill proposed using a single accelerator to inject particles into a pair...
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  • emphasizes the personality and projects of Robert Truax, Eric Drexler, Gerard K. O'Neill, Chris Langton, Freeman Dyson, Hans Moravec, Ralph Merkle, Robert...
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    research. Later that year she was also retained as vice president by Gerard K. O'Neill to handle business and regulatory matters for her newly invented satellite...
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  • physicist Gerard K. O'Neill. The book is an attempt to predict the social and technological state of humanity 100 years in the future. O'Neill's positive...
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    Spaceflight". Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991), creator of Star Trek. Gerard K. O'Neill (1927–1992), space physicist. Krafft Ehricke (1917–1984), rocket scientist...
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  • Christianity Gerard K. O'Neill (1927–1992), American physicist and space activist Gerard Salton (1927–1995), German–born American computer scientist Gerard van...
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  • Lagrange point in which a stable orbit can be maintained. This is where Gerard K. O'Neill proposed building a space colony (of the five Lagrange points, only...
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  • Contents:  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T W Y Alan O'Neill (footballer, born 1957), Irish football player Alan O'Neill (footballer, born 1973), Irish...
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    Bishop Ring (habitat) O'Neill cylinder, a 5 miles (8.0 km) diameter space settlement design proposed in 1976 by Gerard K. O'Neill. Ringworld Man Will Conquer...
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  • 1950 writer (wrote 1984) Gerald Celente 1946 living trend forecaster Gerard K. O'Neill 1927 1992 envisioned space colonization Gianroberto Casaleggio 1954...
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