External links

On this page we will put some external links with background information regarding space colonization and classical republicanism. For our own articles, please check the reader’s guide.  We will regularly update this page.

General Information

www.nss.org 

Although we do not believe that the national space society is very useful for the actual realization of space colonization, their site contains a lot of interesting information regarding space colonization.

settlement.arc.nasa.gov

This site contains several pictures of what space habitats would look like.

http://spacecolonization.wikia.com/wiki/Space_Colonization_Wiki

Nice site, although a little bit too popular

Near Earth Objects

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_object

Gives a good introduction about what Near-Earth objects are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point

Gives a good introduction about what the Lagrange points are.

http://nineplanets.org/asteroids.html

A short introduction to asteroids.

Political philosophy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism

Recommended reading, especially for US readers, about what we see as liberalism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_republicanism

Recommended reading, especially for US readers, about what we see as republicanism.

This page is a very interesting article about classical liberalism and the article also states that classical liberalism and classical republicanism are NOT incompatible with each other, on the contrary. Although I don’t agree with it for 100%, it provides a good general idea where Republic of Lagrangia stands for.

http://prospect.org/article/liberal-idea

The following page explains in short what republicanism is about.

http://www.republikanisme.nl/republiek/neo-romeins-ideaal/republicanism.html

Near Earth Asteroids

The following page provides a short overview of asteroids.

http://nineplanets.org/asteroids.html 

The following three pages are written by Eric Drexler, in which he explains why we should NOT colonize the Moon and/or Mars, but the (Near Earth) Asteroids instead.

http://www.nss.org/settlement/L5news/1983-manifesto.htm

http://www.nss.org/settlement/L5news/1984-case.htm

http://www.nss.org/settlement/L5news/1983-betterresource.htm

The following page, explains why asteroids are essential for any successful space settlement program.

http://www.nss.org/settlement/asteroids/key.html

Space Settlements

The next page explains why we don’t need to establish colonies on the surface of other celestial bodies.

http://www.nss.org/settlement/space/#intro