BRITISH THINK TANK is revisiting their 40 year-old plan to BUILD SPACE COLONIES.

Yeah fuckers, yeah! It’s about time we got some Brits drumming up ways to colonize the fucking space-lands. I mean, ’cause let’s face it. We’re only going to ride this awesome wave of ecocide for so long before we’re eating dirt and drinking boogers.

Or something.

The esteemed British Interplanetary Society is resurrecting an ambitious idea for creating giant orbiting homes in space. But to make it economically and technically feasible, it will have to rely on a plan devised by Gerard O’Neill back in the 1970s.

The BIS, as some of you may know, came up with a plan back in the 1930s to send a multi-stage rocket and a manned lander to the moon. It was eerily reminiscent of the Apollo Mission that came some 30 years later. This think tank has a history, so it would be smart to take these guys seriously.

Now, as BBC Future reports, Jerry Stone of BIS’s SPACE (Study Project Advancing Colony Engineering) is trying to do something similar — to show that building a very large space colony is technically feasible. The plan would call for space-based human habitats consisting of giant rotating spaceships containing landscaped biospheres that can house up to 10 million people. The scheme is commonly referred to as an O’Neill cylinder and similar to the ones portrayed in Babylon 5 and Elysium.

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Fuck yes, fuck yes! It’s about time we got back to building Neuromancer’s Freeside. Fucking article name-dropping Elysium. C’mon, man!