Gender-bending migrant workers of colonized space

Jenn Manley Lee's beautifully rendered webcomic Dicebox follows two migratory workers hopping from colony to colony. Along the way, they encounter terrorist attacks, a spaceship crash, a healthy dose of intrigue, and the secrets of their own pasts.

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Build Your Home In TunnelSpace!

AC75-1086.jpgNASA churned out a lot of concept art in the 1970s while the agency was exploring ways to build colonies in space. NASA concept artists created trippy pieces like the Cynlidrical Colony above, and Torodial and Bernal Sphere colonies as well. We'd like to imagine that you could low-grav the whole thing, and just leap…

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Future Site of the Moon's First Domed City

southpole_strip.jpg You're looking at the future site of the Earth's first permanent base on the Moon's south pole. This picture was created this week using NASA Jet Propulsion Lab's new, extra-powerful radar antenna dish, 70 meters across, in the California Mojave desert. Says NASA researcher Scott Hensley, "With these data [from the new …

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