<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">It’s interesting to imagine a future (fairly far out) where planets become the rural resource providers to the urban space station cities. </div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 6, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" class="">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span style="font-family: Optima-Regular; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Though, again, this will likely require tapping extraterrestrial resources. If nothing else, it might be more practical to create truly large cities in space, where there's no natural geography that limits the physical size: if your city of a million will soon be getting an influx of a hundred thousand, the default answer is just to build more "land". Imagine what today's largest cities would do if excavation to support building down, and architecture to support building up, were to become far cheaper than they are today.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>