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Ceres is a much better hub for mining asteroids or as an intermediate step to gas giants. Martian atmosphere is a b as the sad yesterday news show. Also less gr
by narag 10y ago
Ceres is a much better hub for mining asteroids or as an intermediate step to gas giants. Martian atmosphere is a b as the sad yesterday news show. Also less gravity. If you're going to need living in an underground bubble, look for the practical arrangements, not for the planet status.
- kitsunesoba 10y agoCeres isn't well-suited for long term human habitation due to extremely low gravity and a surface environment much more hostile than that of Mars. You'd either have to have a sizable rotating space station nearby or do everything with remotely controlled and/or autonomous robots, and in the case of the latter you'd be much better building the robots and/or space station on Mars and launching from there than trying to get all of that out of Earth's gravity well.
- ajmurmann 10y agoIn the Expanse series they solved Ceres' gravitation issue by speeding up rotation and walking on "the being" of their tunnels.
- narag 10y agoI took for granted that you would not use surface. The rotating station can be built inside a cave. The main advantage over orbiting is mining. In other words, I believe that Mars' appeal is a mirage. Musk and company are seeing it as another Earth where people can live like here, with a little terraforming. I think it would be much more difficult. Of course I could be wrong, or I could be right but, even then, Musk could be modern Columbus.