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> Colonizing other planets doesn't make much sense to begin with yet. We don't even colonize Antarctica, and it's a paradise compared to mars. The unique chara
by _Microft 5y ago
> Colonizing other planets doesn't make much sense to begin with yet. We don't even colonize Antarctica, and it's a paradise compared to mars.
The unique characteristic of a colony on Mars, Venus or another planet would be that it is not on planet Earth. Antarctica on the other hand has to compete with all the places on Earth that are a lot nicer.
- candiodari 5y agoI think what people don't get is that once you establish a human colony outside of earth ... why would you do that at the bottom of a gravity well ? Why dive into another big gravity well? There are abundant resources in free space, from hydrogen gas to metals, carbon, oxygen that can be mined from passing asteroids (you could easily live in those asteroids while mining them) ... Energy is plentiful, the more complained about problem really is that energy is far too plentiful. Maybe you'd want a base on the moon, but free-floating in space would work even better.
- sandworm101 5y agoLiving inside an asteroid is a common scifi trope but very impracticle. They arent rocks. Most are more like sand dunes or rubble piles. You couldnt just dig a hole, slap a door on it and pump in air. You might bury your hab undrground to protect it against radiation but you would never have walls made of rock, not if you want air to breath.