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This is stupid, let's not colonize space.

Luna (aka the moon)

Mars

Venus

Asteroid base

Titan

Europa

Multiple bases

Base on a large asteroid

Mercury

[10ebbor10]

Let's colonize the sun. The surface isn't all that hot so I hear.

Pseudoscience, and also wrong. Unless there's something I'm missing here, the Sun's "surface" is either just a bit thicker than deep space or hot enough to boil magma.

About terraforming: Not needed. If you'd read the original thread, you'd notice people (yours truly included) thinking of mostly-subterranean habitats in most of these places. Pros: Dwarfiness, protection. Cons: Not much, except perhaps claustrophobia.

Corona has a temperature of about 2 million K, while the surface has a temperature of 15000 K. Then again, due to the incredible thinlyness of the corona, you don't really feel that heat. (Relatively speaking, you're going to get cooked before even coming near)

As for the second, agreed. In order of difficulty:

Short term (Now- 2100)
-Permanent moon base
-Start Terraforming Venus (not complete terraforming)
-Permanent Mars base
- DF 1.00

Medium term

-Permanent Venus base
-Asteroid base/outer system
-terraforming mars

[misko27]

As self-appointed leader and most vocal (read: loud and annoying) member of the mars faction, All I have to say is Mars FTW! All of my arguements are outlined in the original thread. Also, Any one here a modder willing to take on a project? we could use some help.

[GreatWyrmGold]

That's no pseudoscience. That's called a jest.

There was, however, pseudoscience that suggested that there was a surface underneath the firey core. It was "obviously" damp and not-blazingly-hot because you could sometimes see dense forests through "holes" in the sun's exterior (i.e. sunspots).

As to terraforming: WE CAN BUILD UNDERGROUND. Geez. Yeah, we'll likely NEED to build underground, wherever we are, but still.

[kaijyuu]

Why don't we all go underground, live a life without the sun...

Sorry.



On a more serious note, wouldn't the lesser gravity of the moon and mars be pretty big hurdles? Low gravity does horrid things to the human body (though maybe it wouldn't be so bad if the residents never left).

[MetalSlimeHunt]

NASA testing suggests that a couple of hours every day lying in a centrifuge producing 1G is sufficient to maintain normal bone structure indefinitely. They can just sleep in them, problem solved.

That's for microgravity, anyway. Last time I checked we had no word on whether or not Mars' .3G would be good enough on its own.

[mainiac]

There's no option to vote for an O'Neil cylinder at L4 or L5 so I voted for the moon instead.

[Mech#4]

Dyson sphere, Dyson sphere! It's a home, a mega-construction and planet sized all in one.

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Though, since the above isn't a planet as such, I'll say Mars. Then we can inslave other alien races and send them to abduct Earthlings.

[GreatWyrmGold]

There's no option to vote for an O'Neil cylinder at L4 or L5 so I voted for the moon instead.

Well, those would presumably have the issues of a space station, but without convenient asteroid mining or protection from wrathful Earth.

Dyson sphere, Dyson sphere! It's a home, a mega-construction and planet sized all in one.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Though, since the above isn't a planet as such, I'll say Mars. Then we can inslave other alien races and send them to abduct Earthlings.

There's a lot of issues with Dyson spheres, like where you're going to get all of the material to build it and where you'll live in the interim.

[Eagle_eye]

well, as we all know, soap is an extremely strong building material, and only sentient carnivores actually need food. Thus, we breed massive numbers of animals, butcher them, and construct the sphere from pure soap bars.

[GreatWyrmGold]

...We're not dwarves, we need to abide by the laws of physics. Besides, where would you get all of the ash? We're cut off from Earth biomes in space...

[Eagle_eye]

flood the floors and grow fungiwoods?

[Loud Whispers]

Colonize everywhere. Io seems a good place to start.

[Toxicshadow]

Why don't we all go underground, live a life without the sun...

Sorry.



On a more serious note, wouldn't the lesser gravity of the moon and mars be pretty big hurdles? Low gravity does horrid things to the human body (though maybe it wouldn't be so bad if the residents never left).

lol No...it would turn into Gurren Laggan if we lived in mars....

[kaijyuu]

If you worked out a lot, I suppose. The human body won't fundamentally change, but it'll be a lot harder to stay in shape.

But hey, maybe life on Mars will have acrobatic anime ninjas, and actually practical mechs, and stuff like that.

[Loud Whispers]

If you worked out a lot, I suppose. The human body won't fundamentally change, but it'll be a lot harder to stay in shape.

Vitamin D...