HONEYCOMB
As a conclusion, evidence seems to indicate that 80-100 people led by a capable leader is the lower limit for a permanent space settlement, allowing for Earth-like population growth and allowing the human species to thrive.
Bee Philosophy While working on the original Honeycomb Space Settlement, our main focus was creating a simple yet highly efficient home for hundreds, even thousands of people. With this version of the settlement, we have decided to keep true to our minimalistic philosophy, making the colony as affordable and easy to build as possible. In one of Plato’s famous dialogues - The Republic -, we find Socrates explaining how the best state is the one in which each part of the whole performs only its work, without meddling in the performance of work belonging to other parts. Following his reasoning, we have decided that a modular design in which each cell acts as an individual, specialized spacecraft is best suited for our idea. The four keywords we are going to look upon in the subsequent chapters are as follows:
sim ple
in the process of designing the modules, keeping the complexity of our settlement to a minimum is crucial sustainable
although shipping supplies from our home planet is a temporary option, our goal is that of creating a colony which will allow the human species to thrive without any external help upgradeable science has been constantly evolving for as long as we can remember; today’s technology could become obsolete by the 50 years mark, which means that our
spacecraft should be easily upgradeable affordable we believe that once the price of building the settlement exceeds mankind’s current possibilities, that design becomes useless; therefore, the Honeycomb Space Settlement should be as inexpensive as possible, without sacrificing any aspect of its performance
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