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"(5) Colonization of Ceres dominates all other space colonization opportunities in the solar system because there is no shortage of water and no shortage of nit

• PaulHoule 1y ago
  Rotation. You don’t live on the surface but you build a beanstalk and build a big framework of small O’Neill’s cylinders. See https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07487 https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.07487 I’d say this paper thoroughly debunks all other space colonization plans in comparison. For instance it is not sustainable to use rockets for routine transformation. The moon doesn't have enough volatiles. Who knows if gravity on the Martian surface is enough to be healthy. Even if you could take, say, Mercury, apart it would be silly to build a ‘Dyson swarm’ but rather you would build a big framework like that or a ‘Dyson foam’ (e.g. if you took Mercury apart and turned it into a solar collecting structure 1m thick you could capture enough energy to make a few tons of antimatter a second for interstellar travel)