Space Colony

Should we go for a space colony?


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Therod2907

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What r ur opinions about building a space community??
Would that be safe?
Would that be helpful?
Would that be economical?
and so on...
 
A few of the current Drwho eps explore terraforming planets but would be a good idea to test terraforming our own planet first
nah bruh
we cant risk our planet
terraforming would disturb the entire ecosystem
and further too much complications.....
 
I don’t think it would be possible right now with our current technology.
I always wondered what would happen if we managed to land on Mars and terraforming was possible, what would it look like.
 
Nah bruh it wont be cool

Terraforming it would give rise to new unseen problems like a change in itz surface and core composition, itz magnetic dipole and other things
and maybe it would take it off its course. Also it might speed up itz moon (Phobos) which iz expected to crash in 50 million years and would now might crash in like a million years. Moreover that place iz full of Ferric Oxide and we the humans have no way (till date) to separate det oxygen from iron economically and thus
its just rust there which would surely help our devices especially those made of Iron, to rust quickly.

So Terraforming Mars iz probably not a good idea and even if it is, it isnt economical. So Humanity's hope iz jzt Space colony !
 
Space colonies would basically be orbital mining bases. There is no teraforming Mars, its a pipe dream. But building mines, sure. Colonies would be no more than old west mining towns, but on a much larger scale. It might be possible to establish a colony on the moon, but any farther than that, and we could sustain raw material production facilities at best.
 
We ain't gonna be colonizing anything because the world is gonna end in 10 year's due to climate change, you memba?
 
Sulphur acid clouds would make a cloud colony an interesting challenge: but is a planetary base really a space colony? Wouldn't a space colony by definition have to be in space? In which case wouldn't the asteroid or Kuiper belt be a more natural choice?
 
Sulphur acid clouds would make a cloud colony an interesting challenge: but is a planetary base really a space colony? Wouldn't a space colony by definition have to be in space? In which case wouldn't the asteroid or Kuiper belt be a more natural choice?
Yes indeed, but planetary base can also be sometimes addressed as a space colony. Note that a space colony is not just a base or some harbour, it would in fact be some sort of organisation having bases on mars, moon, asteroids and other space stations. Futhermore, sulphur clouds? damn, there's none on Mars as far as ik and building bases on asteroids in Kuiper belt would be easy as it too won't have any clouds cuz obviously negligible gravity, so no atmosphere and thus no clouds...
Now answer to "In which case wouldn't the asteroid or Kuiper belt be a more natural choice?"- In cases where we would not know the composition of the asteroid, that is, if we were to establish a base but the surface's too feeble to hold a single pole stick into it, or in other cases if the surface is irregular, it would be hard for us to work and establish a base. Moreover, we know that asteroids keep on changing trajectories thereby making it more difficult to colonize it. Adding to the burden are the overtly frequent collisions between asteroids in Kuiper belt :c
Anyways, that's just my opinion :)
Hope that has ur answer!
 
Not in our life time and musk is bullshiter he so stupid
Curious as to why you say that since we're already on our way back to the moon to actually set up a colony there while SpaceX is currently developing their rockets further in order to achieve settlement on Mars. It will most definitely be in our lifetime since the Nasa Artemis Program is set to officially launch no earlier than May 2024. Mars is set to be late 2020s or early 2030s.
 
Yes indeed, but planetary base can also be sometimes addressed as a space colony. Note that a space colony is not just a base or some harbour, it would in fact be some sort of organisation having bases on mars, moon, asteroids and other space stations. Futhermore, sulphur clouds? damn, there's none on Mars as far as ik and building bases on asteroids in Kuiper belt would be easy as it too won't have any clouds cuz obviously negligible gravity, so no atmosphere and thus no clouds...
Now answer to "In which case wouldn't the asteroid or Kuiper belt be a more natural choice?"- In cases where we would not know the composition of the asteroid, that is, if we were to establish a base but the surface's too feeble to hold a single pole stick into it, or in other cases if the surface is irregular, it would be hard for us to work and establish a base. Moreover, we know that asteroids keep on changing trajectories thereby making it more difficult to colonize it. Adding to the burden are the overtly frequent collisions between asteroids in Kuiper belt :c
Anyways, that's just my opinion :)
Hope that has ur answer!

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, there is thought to be water frozen in it's impact craters. Ceres is a dwarf planet, 1 of around 14 known to exist in our solar system. Vesta another asteroid belt object along with Ceres has the potential to become a habitable planetesimal.
 
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