Space Colonies By Syd Mead, Roy Scarfo, Rick Guidice & Don Davis

Montes Apenninus ( 17.02.2024 )

Look at those huge tall mountains

Rocket Building in Saitama, Japan, built in the 1980s to house an astronomy museum, now mostly apartments.

(Sabukaru)

MARY GORDON ‘SPACESHIP HOUSE’, 1972 La Selva Beach, California Image © Angelina Rennell

Disco the robot promotes Discover Magazine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, 1982.

1st Photo Credit: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/308778118171072647/

2nd Photo Credit: http://www.expressnews.com/news/environment/article/SA-Botanical-Garden-is-growing-6271706.php

3rd Photo Credit: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/San_Antonio_Botanical_Garden

All three pictures show the scale of the Lucile Halsell Conservatory, the last two showing the scale and the interior. It is important to see how grand the conservatory truly is and how small the people are in comparison to the massive structures. Even next to the plants, the visitors look negligible proving that the buildings needed to be grand not only for a design aspect but because physically the function required it so the plants could grow and expand as needed. 

vintage view-master ad

Starlink Launch & Moon Halo l John Kraus

Flowers that are actually alien life forms

Hveradalir Geothermal Springs - October 7th 2023

NASA art by Don Davis, 1975.

(National Archives)