High Frontier

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  • In Gerard K. O’Neill

    In his book The High Frontier (1978) he suggested that space colonies might be the ultimate solution to such terrestrial problems as pollution, overpopulation, and the energy shortage. At the time of his death he was working on a high-speed vehicle powered by magnetic forces and traveling through a…

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