Underground Habitats of Ceres

Tom Kalbfus · 2015-01-30 14:21:37

About 25% of all the mass in the asteroid belt is in the dwarf planet Ceres, when you think about it that way, then maybe 25% of all the settlements in the asteroid belt will be in Ceres as well. With other asteroids you can simply hollow them out and rotate them, but Ceres is too big to do that.

Spaniard · 2015-01-30 17:22:16

Ok. But it is easy to put the mass on orbit with rail guns. Ceres could be disassembled it a extreme configuration if we wanted to maximize colonizable space.
I think that this is something extreme. For the same reason, I think that on Ceres won't exists so many colonies.

Terraformer · 2015-01-31 12:35:35

Tom, Terra has a much higher mass than the Asteroid Belt, so... maybe there'll be a vast population on Terra?

I doubt the population of the solar system will go past a trillion in this millennium, especially if we have indefinite life extension. There's simply is no need to crowd together on planets.

Small buried rotating towns, and farms and parks on the surface? That could open up... well, most small worlds actually, especially with paraterraforming.

Tom Kalbfus · 2015-01-31 13:05:37

Terraformer wrote:

Tom, Terra has a much higher mass than the Asteroid Belt, so... maybe there'll be a vast population on Terra?

Gravity and crustal compression prevents us from digging to the Earth's core, it is Cere's low gravity which makes much more of it accessible to mining. digging 50 km is equivalent to digging a kilometer down into Earth's crust.

Terraformer wrote:

I doubt the population of the solar system will go past a trillion in this millennium, especially if we have indefinite life extension. There's simply is no need to crowd together on planets.

the advantage Ceres has less surface area for all that internal volume, each Bernal need not be pressurized and thus much easier to build, as it would share atmosphere with the tunnels and all the other Bernals. The atmosphere just needs to be contained within the subsurface of Ceres. Each stack of 50 Bernals has enough living space for half a million people.

Terraformer wrote:

Small buried rotating towns, and farms and parks on the surface? That could open up... well, most small worlds actually, especially with paraterraforming.

if they are contained within a network of pressurized tunnels, then there would be much less worry about meteor strikes as would be the case of free space rotating habitats.

tahanson43206 · 2021-01-01 18:46:31

This is another of the many topics created long before I arrived in the forum, and which are fun (for me for sure) to "discover"

I was looking for topics with the word "underground" and found this one (of two) ...

Tom Kalbus was thinking about Ceres, and in the context of Ceres, I ** really ** like his idea ....

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However, the article at the link below is about an underground habitat on Earth ....

As I read the article , despite the skeptical tone of the writer, I think the gent who designed and built this underground living space had a large number of good ideas.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/twitter-hate … 42178.html

It seems to me likely that residents on Mars will appreciate indoor spaces like this one, with optical effects chose to suggest more space than is actually present.

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Since this topic was about a habitat on Ceres, I was not surprised to find Terraformer in the list of contributors.

Terraformer, here's another chance to add to a perfectly good topic that has a lot of growth potential.

(th)

Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-02-20 13:33:03

Unknown class of water-rich asteroids identified
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-unknown-c … roids.html

Animation shows Ceres’ colors, terrains, 215 years after discovery
https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/miss … discovery/

China considering mission to Ceres and large dark matter space telescope
https://spacenews.com/china-considering … telescope/

Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-03-01 13:43:42

Astronomers spy new class of dark, water-rich asteroids like dwarf planet Ceres

https://www.space.com/dark-water-rich-a … anet-ceres

Mars_B4_Moon · 2023-03-19 17:57:11

Dynamics of gas-driven eruption on Ceres as a probe to its interior

https://twitter.com/IcarusJournal/statu … 6633889796

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