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A terraformed Ceres could not hold onto any atmosphere without being bagged, and in any case it would not be a fit place for humans as the gravity would be too low.
You seem big on the bagging idea. Titan isn't bagged and it's got a really thick atmosphere.
So you want to hollow it out and live on the inside. Then what is the point of the gasbag? Just make the asteroid airtight with the waste materiels, add an airlock... congratulations, you have an o'neill habitat. With thicker walls for radiation protection.
Hello, anyone there? Spinning an asteroid would just fling you off.
And then you have to provide electricity. A submersible with an outside temperature of 50c should soon melt it's way down to the core. If the core's Iron it should start to spin, creating a magnetic field, once the Ice around has been melted. If it isn't then it shouldn't be to hard to give it enough Iron. Then we can take most of the water away, replace the mantle with something, and you're over half way there. Then trap a comet in orbit and your done.
How could I go about setting up a society for the exploration and colonization of Ceres. Could anyone help me?
Simply coating the rocky core with Iron (or Nickle, if it's magnetic) would make a magnetic field.
Build a space elevator and pump iron/nickle into the mantle. Maybe with radioactive waste we can keep it liquid. If we replace the core with Iron we'll get a magnetic field. Water vapor for warming is no object.
What about replacing the ice with iron. Then the rotation will give you the magnetic field. You won't have to keep power going to it. Making the planet heavier must be good, to.
What about half-way between orbit and a baloon, perhaps with a back up rocket in case it starts sinking to launch it into orbit.
But ESA still have to rely on the US or Russia to launch it.
Spinning it would just fling you off.
Would it be possible to replace say about half, maybe all of, the Ice mantle with iron (molten or otherwise.) Not only as Ceres rotates would it provide a magnetic field, it would also make Ceres heavier (more gravity?)
I don't find Mars appealing, I find Ceres appealing. For a start I own it and secondly it's smaller.
Anyway, back to topic...
I'd just say "Fine, I don't want to go to Mars anyway. I'd rather go to Ceres because I actually own it.
I'm stuck between genetic engineering and physics.
I support the Iraq war 100%. Any war to remove someone who killes his own people in Iron Maidens deserves to go.
And I support Israel. If people would actually bother to read the Koran they would see what the so called 'religon of peace' really is.
I don't see Britain doing anything. Or ESA.
What about having orbital shipyards in orbit to cut down on the costs of launching. It would use resources from the moon and asteroids to cut down on costs of resources from Earth.
Eventually it will probably get to a point where there is a Martian war of independence. The orbital shipyards would be used for building fighters. What methods could prevent it?
No-ones doing anything to my asteroids without my permission.
Anyway, you would use metal asteroids sa source of metal for habitats on other asteroids.
First off I would like to tell everyone that I have claimed all the astroids. I did it before Ceres became a dwarf planet so I own it as well.
What would I have to do to terraform Ceres? And what about terraforming smaller asteroids to provide food to the rest of the system?