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The first colonists should be given land stakes of a certain amount of land (say, 100 square kilometres?) Eventually all the land would be gone and people would start to settle in each 'nation.'
That you're proccesing the images to much?
How much for a fully reusable craft? It cost 25 mil to develop a fully reusable suborbitle craft that can carry 2 passengers (SpaceShipOne.)
Would it be economical to acclerate at 1-2 g for half the journey, turn the craft round, and deccelerate at that g?
And how much g can humans stand for a long time, anyway?
The main problem with terraforming seems to be an excess of carbon. CO2 seems pretty abundant, as does Hydrogen, so water is no object. The gas giants are made of Hydrogen and Helium so the best planetary transportation would be helium filled airships.
But it's kind of impossible to know what it's like at or near light speed because currently we can't get to it.
Two reasons Against.
Moral: Genetic Engineering humans brings up the yuk factor in nearly everyone.
Technical: We are no where near that level of sophistication yet. There could be unforseen defects. We aren't even a level 1 civilisation yet.
What about my second question about FTL?
Er... what do you mean by another Mars plan?
And what are your great ideas?
Am I talking to myself? What about a shipyard that could construct other stations and ships. If you are talking about moving my asteroids then you obviusly have identified the resource for the ships & stations.
New Thread? Possiblity of Terraforming Neptune?
You want to use valuable Duetranium (H2)??
The next station should be a Shipyard. Maybe having a big zero gravity construction area and hanger where the airlock would be. At each end of the cylindar would be spokes sticking out with the habs on. The radius of the cylindar, plus the spoke length, plus the hab height, would have to add up to 224 metres. The parts would all be launched unmanned so only one mission is needed for actual construction, another for all the resources. Airlocks would be placed in between each hab incase of puncture by meteroids and other debris. Also, if the oxygen is going down and no shipment can be scrambled, that area can be blocked off to live in until a ship arrives.
I thought this thread was about inter-planetary war.
Has anyone considered using Particle Accelorators for engines. The particles coming out of the back of the craft would be travelling at near the speed of light, which would accelerate the craft to those sorts of speeds.
On a related topic, the laws of physics supposedly break down at light speed. The laws of physics is the only thing preventing FTL.
The moons or the planet. The planet to me sounds like a big super earth.
Ceres. With all the cash I'll have when I'm older backing it it will happen.
You didn't leave a third box: I don't think it's humans fault. Anyway, what's this doing in a terraforming forum?
Pregnancy wouldn't happen with a mixed crew. With that amount of radiation they wouldn't be able to have children.
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Millions of americans will be able to afford it. 1 out of every 125 ais a millionaire.
Maybe a pressure of about 50kPa, 40% O2, 40% He and 20% N2 would be a rather good atmosphere.
40% helium?!?!
*squeaks* Hi everybody, how are you today?
That would mean you could get to Ceres in that time as well. Hehehehehe.
But what about food? I know, Ceres swops water for food and carbon.
Did you read the article? The thing about fusion is it only needs a fraction of the antimatter, which, oh, happens to be hard to collect. I say we turn jupiter into an antimatter collection place, get enough to go to a star system with a planet much bigger, and use that system for antimatter production.