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Gerard Kitchen O'Neill byl americký fyzik, filozof a futurolog.

Absolvoval Swarthmore College. Doktorát filozofie získal na Cornell University v roce 1957. V roce 1965 se stal profesorem Princeton University v USA.

Zabýval se možnostmi osidlování vesmíru, problematikou meziplanetárního prostoru. Vytvořil projekty na výstavbu průmyslových zařízení a osídlení na oběžné dráze kolem Země. Potřebné suroviny měly být získávány z Měsíce. Byl zastáncem migrace do meziplanetárního prostoru a další evoluce uskutečňující se již mimo povrch planety Země. V roce 1977 založil Space Studies Institute. Wikipedia

✵ 6. únor 1927 – 27. duben 1992

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“We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable — the best site is "somewhere else entirely."”

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Gerard O'Neill

The High Frontier (1976)

“Is the surface of a planet really the right place for expanding technological civilization?”

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"Is the surface of a planet really the right place for expanding technological civilization?"-Stewart Brand interview July 1975 http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/CoEvolutionBook/Interview.HTML

“Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segments of the world up to a decent living standard, without recourse to war or punitive action against those already in material comfort; to provide for a maturing civilization the basic energy vital to its survival.”

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Gerard O'Neill

The High Frontier (1976)

“There's no point in going out into space if the future that we'll see there is a sterile future living in tin cans. We have to able to recreate in space habitats which are as beautiful as earth-like as the loveliest parts of planet Earth and we can do that.”

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Gerard O'Neill

The High Frontier (1976)