I suspect we’ll see orbital space colonies in hollowed-out asteroids before we see a Mars colony.

I suspect we’ll see orbital space colonies in hollowed-out asteroids before we see a Mars colony. But I could well be wrong.

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Kathryn Huxtable on November 18, 2017 at 6:25 pm said:

Agreed. And wrt that terraforming video, unless you can shelter the planet from the solar wind, it’ll lose the new atmosphere in a few million years, and then it’ll be hard to recreate. Unless we can figure out a way to spin up a magnetic field, or other protection, I don’t see the point of terraforming.

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Louis Doggett on November 19, 2017 at 12:04 am said:

I am not going to predict what people will do. They have a habit of defying logic, coming up with an idea or knowledge I didn’t know, or changing the perimeters by inventing something new that changes everything.

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Kathryn Huxtable on November 19, 2017 at 12:45 am said:

Louis Doggett True, that.

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