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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

nerd Um, acktually, we should build long-term Lunar and Martian habitats underground (lava tubes would work nicely) to protect from solar and interstellar radiation. nerd

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

It's so ridiculous. We can do that at home. There's literally no point in living in Mars. No air no gravity, no radiation protection. Even if we make the air here radioactive and the water poisonous, at least there's air and water.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not like this makes up for everything else, but there is gravity on Mars

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Go shit in someone else's punchbowl. The future can be wonderful.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I love space exploration for science, but living in Mars makes no sense, sorry. Even in the solar system there's better places to settle. Heck, even venus is better.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Actually, it's a lot better to dig, free radiation shield!

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (5 children)

https://poorlydrawnstore.com/products/our-future-in-space-print

In case you're like my space friends who want this as a poster

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

City planners wouldn't allow more buildings on Earth...

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Lol, we ain't making it off earth, especially not Venus

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Ironically, between Venus' earth-like gravity and high atmospheric density, it might actually be easier to build cloud colonies on Venus than ground colonies on Mars.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The hard part would things like water and raw building materials, one of the benefits of ground is that it’s mostly iron, oxygen, and other metals, while basically everything on Venus would need to be shipped in from off world.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Except that venus is just absolutely hostile to everything

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah, we just need to crash Mercury into the surface of Venus, get the rotation sorted out and a moon going. After that, buildings.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Now you bring this home, add some broth, a potato, baby, you've got a stew going.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yep, yet it's my understanding that it'd be easier to colonize Venus than Mars. Venus is closer, Venus' gravity is similar to Earth's, the air is extremely dense which means balloons would be very effective, iirc Venus has more opportunities for inter-planetary transit, high-altitude temperatures (where the balloons would float) are more similar to Earth's, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

That's why balloons! You can have sick blimps on Venus and IIRC you can capture atmospheric gasses to burn as fuel for them and to create water too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah what would be the benefit to colonies Venus vs just living in space? Gravity?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I think the theory is that it proves that ones favorite -ism that starts with c- is objectively superior to ones least favorite -ism that starts with c-.

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