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January 2016
50x60 centimeters.
Acrylic over gesso over MDF wood.
In the year 28,000 a new day dawns over a crater which, just a geological instant before (3,000 years), used to be a dead and barren emptiness under a black sky. After that it was just a muddy lake in the desert, inhabited by fungi, bacteria and algae, but now complex lifeforms are starting to colonize this soil made fertile by those humble organisms and it won't be long before the Moon becomes a world-spanning garden of terraformed paradise, a recovered Garden of Eden.
As you can see, Earth has a glowing ring. It's composed of orbital space habitats and installations. Some of them are linked to the ground by space elevators and many others are linked with other habitats. 1000 years after this scene most of them will be linked among them and with Earth, forming a solid wheel around the planet with many spokes making contact with the surface.
This titanic structure will be used for a fast, cheap and almost total evacuation of Earth during the 31st millennium.
The largest plants in this painting are fouquieria columnaris, endemic to the south of the Baja California peninsula and a small part of the mexican state of Sonora. I think they would do great in the lunar deserts since they can grow on rocky soil and extract humidity from the air. They are also resistant to strong winds and they are very long lived.
50x60 centimeters.
Acrylic over gesso over MDF wood.
In the year 28,000 a new day dawns over a crater which, just a geological instant before (3,000 years), used to be a dead and barren emptiness under a black sky. After that it was just a muddy lake in the desert, inhabited by fungi, bacteria and algae, but now complex lifeforms are starting to colonize this soil made fertile by those humble organisms and it won't be long before the Moon becomes a world-spanning garden of terraformed paradise, a recovered Garden of Eden.
As you can see, Earth has a glowing ring. It's composed of orbital space habitats and installations. Some of them are linked to the ground by space elevators and many others are linked with other habitats. 1000 years after this scene most of them will be linked among them and with Earth, forming a solid wheel around the planet with many spokes making contact with the surface.
This titanic structure will be used for a fast, cheap and almost total evacuation of Earth during the 31st millennium.
The largest plants in this painting are fouquieria columnaris, endemic to the south of the Baja California peninsula and a small part of the mexican state of Sonora. I think they would do great in the lunar deserts since they can grow on rocky soil and extract humidity from the air. They are also resistant to strong winds and they are very long lived.
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Interesting. Back in the 1950s and '60s, RAND physicist John Gilvaary calculated that the early Moon had enough H2O and a thick enough atmosphere for liquid water seas to pool. However, being a less massive body, the atmosphere leaked away after a few million years and the pressure plummeted to today's vacuum at the lunar surface. So, this image could have been conceived as on the early Moon. NASA astronomer John A. O'Keefe even proposed a temporary ring of tektites around the Earth 700,000 years ago. But it's possible our planet has had several unstable rings over its long history. This may explain some of the tektite strewnfield patterns.