A DREAM TO SHARE AN INTERPLANETARY BIOSPHERE
Indigo Island is still a fun, do-able concept as proved by Richie Sowa's Spiral Island off Cancun, Mexico. Still it's a 3-D world idea, completely. Earthbound. Throught these pages and archives, there is a longing often unspoken - SOMEWHERE ELSE. Completely.
It is said by those who claim to channel past lives deep into pre-history, that Earth was once a BIOSPHERE - a smaller world of solid ground, surrounded by a huge bubble of ice, far, far above terra firma. A greenhouse super-saturated with oxygen providing long life. No rain. High humidity. Super-verdant plant life with abundant fruit, no need to eat meat or even do more than pick a snack off a tree of your choice. A perfectly circular orbit around the sun with exactly 360 days per year. No moon. Yet. The icy mantle of clear ice was so perfect that it made a huge concave mirror where man could see his reflected works in the sky ... the plains of Nazca. Giants? Possibly. But then something happened. Something came crashing through the solar system like a cue ball on a pool table, playing 9-ball.
Redux? Sure, why not. Why not if in your lifetime it were possible to build an inter-galactical Party Boat? A Biosphere.
Let's imagine together what MIGHT be possible past 2012 - past 2100. A
lake full of water moved out into space. The whole lake, fish and all. In space. Hanging there. Don't ask me
HOW - that's
your job.
The water all comes together to make a perfect sphere, a sphere say - 10 miles in diameter. Perfectly round, like a ball - or a lightbulb. It freezes in the cold of space, into a solid, round sphere of ice.... Whew... hard work. You done good.
Now we cover that sphere with a mile-thick coating of silica. Sand. Next we push the whole thing to get it spinning and shove it in a near-miss trajectory toward the sun. Sand heats up, turns to glass, SOME of the ice vaporizes and what we have after that is a rough spere of glass - with some ice in it.
Hard at work again, we take that 10-mile-wide glass sphere - probably many feet thick and build a portal in it.. kind of like how they insert a filament into a light bulb. Seal it. Let the gentle sunlight melt the ice. Add a few jillion tons of earth or crushed-up meteors and spin the whole thing gently to simulate gravity.
Biosphere. Plant your gardens, start the music and get the party started.
Such is the structure of the Bathyscaphe with which we explore the ocean depths.
Impossible? Of course. So was television.
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