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"The only real way to maintain privacy is to be uninteresting. It may be that privacy is a passing fad."
- Larry Niven
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| Inflatable Lunar Resort | ||
| An inflatable structure on the moon, intended to provide rest and relaxation to lunar residents. |
This is a very early reference to the idea of an inflatable structure on the moon.
| Then he got to his feet and entered the lift to the top floor of the resort.
Corpsmen, dressed in bright vacation colors, were relaxing and enjoying themselves around and in a vast tank of sparkling blue water. Above them a dome of transparent plastic kept the fresh spring-scented air in, and the bleak void of the Lunar landscape out... Rita O'Neill had climbed from the water and was sunbathing drowsily a little way beyond the main group of people. Her sleek naked body gleamed moistly in the hot light that filtered down through the lens of the protective balloon. |
| Technovelgy from Solar Lottery,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Ace Books in 1955 Additional resources -
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Arthur C. Clarke gave a more technical description of the idea of an inflatable lunar habitat in his 1961 story A Fall of Moondust.
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