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Indeed - I hadn't noticed the publication date before encountering the remark about Pioneer's Jovian encounter still being in the future! High time for an updat
by thombat 3y ago
Indeed - I hadn't noticed the publication date before encountering the remark about Pioneer's Jovian encounter still being in the future! High time for an update; although many of the additional moons may not be of direct interest to settlers ("By most counts, Jupiter has between 80 and 95 moons, but neither number captures the complexity of the Jovian system of moons, rings and asteroids." - https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/moons/ https://science.nasa.gov/jupiter/moons/) but the much richer picture of the larger moons and the surprising radiation environment should either grant the Jovians their empire, or sadly banish them too.
- nine_k 3y agoJupiter is a bit far from Sun, it's hard to harvest energy there. Maybe Jupiter could help, at least by reflecting more light back. Otherwise you have to first learn how to build nuclear reactors there from local materials, and how to make fuel for them; it's sort of tricky even here on Earth.
- thombat 3y agoGeothermal station on Io? Harvest the radiation belts somehow? (Probably both environments are too destructive to be practical, like putting a Crockpot on the surface of Venus)