In the 1970s the Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill, with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford...

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In the 1970s the Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill, with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University, held a series of space colony summer studies which explored the possibilities of humans living in giant orbiting spaceships. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed and a number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. While the setting is highly futuristic, the architecture remains almost entirely based on the single family home and neatly trimmed bushes: http://buff.ly/2mmXLWL