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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

[Aptus]

Off world colonies are one of my biggest dreams. However unlikely; I wish that earth will have an off world colony before I die.

[Eagle_eye]

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...

You could have artificial ultraviolet.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Or just, you know, Vitamin D supplements. No need to make it overcomplicated.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Off world colonies are one of my biggest dreams. However unlikely; I wish that earth will have an off world colony before I die.

Maybe it'll be this one! Probably not...heck, I'm not even sure if packing all of the technology for the space station would be practical for at least another few decades! But, that's for the other thread...

[Eagle_eye]

Or just, you know, Vitamin D supplements. No need to make it overcomplicated.

IIRC, artificial vitamin D isn't metabolized well enough to be a complete replacement for light, regardless of how much you take.

[GreatWyrmGold]

well then, we just use artificial UV rays.

done and dusted. now we need to sort out the next problem.
*reads list*
oh yeah, with the reduced gravity on the moon being low enough for people to fly provided there is an atmosphere (e.g. withing a large dome) and they have large enough wings, how will we prevent vigilante justice from people dressed as batman?

We'll ban importation of Batman costumes, if it's an issue.

I'm being honest, we'd require wings not too much larger than our arms to fly, which I think would be pretty awesome.

Indeed.

[alway]

Obviously we just don't give them the right to bear arms. Chop those arms off at the shoulders, and they won't be flapping any wings any time soon.

[kaijyuu]

That doesn't mean they won't get illegal bear arms. With claws. This IS the future we're talking about.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Obviously we just don't give them the right to bear arms. Chop those arms off at the shoulders, and they won't be flapping any wings any time soon.

No. An armed society is a polite society.

[GreatWyrmGold]

nonono, no projectile weapons! they can cause explosive depressurisation!

...Where are you thinking we'll be living, in a pressurized dome made of tissue paper or quarter-inch iron or something? Most ideas had most of the place being underground.

give everyone a license to carry FLAMETHROWERS!

Too much collateral damage potential. Not good for the economy or morale. Crossbows and guns should be enough--crossbows only for on ships.

[misko27]

No. An armed society is a polite society.

In arizona, thye have combination ammunition and liquer stores. Let that sink in. Wonder why there aren't more shootings in arizona.

[jester]

Flamethrowers are technically legal in alot of places.

  If it hasnt been mentioned yet, im for converting pluto into a missile base and using it to take potshots and the people who decided it wasnt a planet.

[alway]

  If it hasnt been mentioned yet, im for converting pluto into a missile base and using it to take potshots and the people who decided it wasnt a planet.

If you do that, Neil DeGrasse Tyson will personally show up on your pluto-tian doorstep. He will then proceed to put you in your place with the other dwarf planets. Don't say I didn't warn you.

*Neil DeGrasse Tyson approaches with a smirk* "Watch out, we got a badass over here" *smirk turns to angry glare* *TYSON PAUNCH flattens jester against Pluto with sufficient force to send its orbit on a collision course with another dwarf planet, with the final impact turning both into a new set of asteroids in the Oort Cloud*