Colonizing Earth’s Orbit Is the First Real Step Into Space

We often talk about the future of space as if it starts on Mars, in the asteroid belt, or among the stars. Giant habitats and interstellar travel dominate the conversation. Those ideas are exciting, but they skip over a much closer and more practical question. What happens first. In this episode of Entropy Rising, we focus on the place where humanity is most likely to learn how to actually live in space: Earth’s orbit. This is not an episode about distant megastructures or speculative technol...