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The whole "colonize planets" won't pan anyway. By the time it is viable a O'Neill cylinder will be a better place to live and we can put them in ideal orbits.
by Rhapso 10y ago
The whole "colonize planets" won't pan anyway. By the time it is viable a O'Neill cylinder will be a better place to live and we can put them in ideal orbits.
- fcsuper 10y agoRight now, this is more about searching for other life.
- intransigent 10y agoConsidering that all our eggs are in one basket, right now, any topic of discussion in the vein of colonization is a good one, as long as it keeps people thinking in that direction, I'd say. In the short term, their are still the intra-solar-system planets and satellites, and those are something we should push onto quickly. Once we get to those, permanent artificial platforms will arrive all the faster, if at all.