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So even if we colonize the Solar system at x10 (x100?) cost, we are getting x2 x3 resources. Sad!

• Retric 8y ago
  Depends on if you include the oceans. Mars is not that big, but lack of oceans more than makes up for it. On top of that we mostly ignore huge chunks of the land mass like Antarctica.
• perilunar 8y ago
  No, because we don't colonise the solar system using the surfaces of planets and moons — we do it by mining asteroids and building giant rotating habitats. There is enough material in just the asteroids alone to build habitats with a land area of millions of times the earth. Look up the work of Gerard K. O'Neill or John S. Lewis for details.
  • jobigoud 8y ago
    The posted map already contains all asteroids above 100m in diameter.
  • fallingfrog 8y ago
    Yes to this. Most of the spherical bodies in the solar system are so inhospitable that making a spinning cylinder full of air is actually much easier and more useful.