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Turning carbon into useful materials is good here on Earth, but there is at least a planet on our solar system with more water, and there is the possibility tha
by emporas 3y ago
Turning carbon into useful materials is good here on Earth, but there is at least a planet on our solar system with more water, and there is the possibility that there is a planet with more carbon as well. We are talking about rain and rivers of methane.
Carbon as a construction material is the way to go, here on Earth, and other planets as well. In normal pressures we experience here on earth or in similar planets, temperature, radioactivity etc, carbon is the most versatile material of all. I think carbon gold rush is well on it's way.
- culopatin 3y agoWhat’s the point of your first paragraph?
- ben_w 3y agoI think you're thinking of Europa and Titan, which are moons not planets. The gas giants themselves are much harder to extract resources from than the moons, and ISRU from the moons (even our own) are beyond us for the moment even if they have more of both in total. As we can already synthesise diamond from methane, I couldn't guess what we'll be doing by the time Titan looks like an interesting target for industrial expansion.