Yes , we can . We can altogether make the artificial somberness seen in movies like 2001 : A Space Odyssey or Elysium , it ’ll just be a lot of freaking money and require a lot of freaking resources . Real Engineeringexplains how centrifugal military force forge as contrived gravity and estimates ( using math cribbed from how much the ISS costs ) the cost needed to build up it : only around five trillion dollars and 10 years of the world ’s total aluminum production . And that ’s just for appetizer .

But if you part that up between 500,000 people at $ 10 million a pop and chance a whole mess of aluminum in space … hey , it can totally become a reality . Ha .

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Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

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