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Compared to the moon, it was stupendously easy. There was air to breathe, water to drink, and plants to eat, and reasonably safe levels of radiation. So easy ev
by azeotropic 7y ago
Compared to the moon, it was stupendously easy. There was air to breathe, water to drink, and plants to eat, and reasonably safe levels of radiation. So easy even a caveman could do it.
The only thing the moon has going for it is the apparent absence of microorganisms that cause human disease.
- incompatible 7y agoYes, of course humans already colonized most of the world in prehistory. Even remote Pacific islands had been colonized before 1000AD.
- jfoutz 7y agoalthough i hate it, yeah. there are plenty of places humans don't live _on earth_. Deserts and tundra are obvious. but like 70% of the surface is water, and basically 0% of the population lives there. Maybe we need to go down before we go up. Maybe we need to survive at a few meters below sea level before we can handle living at a few kilometers above it.
- incompatible 7y agoYes, I think even building a completely self-sufficient city in a desert on Earth, with the ability to build its own equipment including computers may be beyond us at this point. Obviously it would be a lot easier than doing it on the Moon or Mars, but too much of the technology that would be needed is locked up in trade secrets. There's plenty of 3D space available at the surface of the Earth; it's not exploited either because it's not profitable or because government rules prevent it. Who wants to live in a desert in the middle of nowhere? But they want to live on Mars? It would get old fast, especially with such a laggy Internet connection.