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Welcome to the Space Colonization Wiki
The Open Source Space Colonization project where anyone can contribute to human colonization of local space before a disaster strikes us.

219 articles since July 2008

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What's going on? We're running out of fossil fuels! Limitless Renewable Energy From Space Future human evolution The Path to Space NEW: Learn by watching videos

What can we do about it? The technology we will need in order to get all the clean, renewable energy we need from space, that will solve all our energy problems, already exists. We simply have to get together in large numbers and build it; and an open source implementation is the most efficient way to do that. About this wiki We need a substantial workforce if we are to have any chance of colonizing space in the short time available We need a plan

What's new on Space Colonization Wiki

• A call to open source the strategies and work required to colonize space has been added.

• A detailed discussion of Open Source Space Colonization has been planned. Coming soon.

• Why Open Source the entire field of space colonization?

Traditionally the field of space exploration has been closed to the general public. But the human race may now be at the only stage of evolution, forwards or backwards, where we have the capability to colonize space, and the closed models of space exploration do not have the capacity to help us do that before we run out of cheap energy or possibly suffer a global disaster here on Earth. Open Sourcing the entire field of space colonization seems to be the only viable solution to the rapidly increasing number of problems for the human race in the 21st century. Read more...

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