Quite strange that the article does not mention Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama (which were published just 2 years before that "summer study", by the way)
> On the surface of a planet like Earth, we can imagine “down” (or in) as a vector passing through our body toward the planet’s center. Down starts at our feet. But in spin gravity, down is a vector pointing away from a shared center. Spinning around the center axis of an O’Neill Cylinder, Bernal Sphere, or Stanford Torus, we lose track of the comforting presence of Earth’s (illusory) ground plane. The Torus designed at the Summer Study had an aluminum skin less than three centimeters thick. If that boundary were breached, anything lost through the hole would fall “out” at a speed of about 200 meters per second, likely ending up in an independent — and possibly unrecoverable — orbit around the Earth. Just thinking about that could be enough to induce vertigo among the inhabitants. As Sun-Ra said, space is a bottomless pit.
I wonder if there would be a way to create mild, progressive exposure to this new living space. I’ve heard that small doses of direct exposure can be an effective treatment for phobias and fears.
People can get used to practically anything, by small increments. If conditions of those small increments all happen, it's hard even to notice. But even moving to a Bernal sphere, it would feel familiar after a time -- days for some, months for others -- and any children raised there would find it perfectly ordinary. Even, the packing into a heavily shielded shelter to wait for a solar mass ejection to blast by.
The move from a farm to a city apartment is not really a smaller change.
I love those images. The inside of those giant space stations always look like a 1950's suburban utopia with cute little houses and white picket fences.
So, no. But anything can be released to the public domain, or under a liberal license, anytime, and there is no central registry to consult whether this has happened.
And, very incidentally, "copywrite" is not a real word.
Correct, I was offering this as an alternative if the copyright has expired. It's no different from a CC or other FOSS license really. Should be stated on, around or near the work.
