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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. Ther
by perilunar 9y 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 9y agoThe posted map already contains all asteroids above 100m in diameter.
- fallingfrog 9y agoYes 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.