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[Local Trouble]

I mean, it's a laudable goal to colonize somewhere off-world, but it doesn't necessarily have to be Mars.  We could build O'Neill cylinders and a moon base first.  We could also mine near Earth asteroids.  I don't see why Mars is a higher priority than those.

[Kimarhi]

I think a lunar colony should be first just because if you can get anything going there first then the fuel consumption would be different launching from there vs earth, but I personally don't care if anybody wants to try Mars. 

You just aren't going to be junking up Mars.  It is already a dead planet.  Everything will have to be grown to eat and done in habitats, radiation is awful because there is no magnetic field, its freezing cold, low gravity which will mess up food in your bowels, and the lack of surface pressure. 

Like it is a graveyard planet.  Throwing an empty coke can on its surface can't hurt it. 

[SiL]

Colonising the moon doesn't sound cool enough on Twitter though.

[Crazy Rich]

I  feel like we shouldn't mess with the moon though as any man-related disaster on the moon could potentially in turn f**k the earth too.

[SiL]

How? What could we possibly do to it?

[Crazy Rich]

Blow it up.

[Local Trouble]

We should mine the moon for that sweet, sweet helium-3.

[BlueMarsalis79]

We should mine the moon for that sweet, sweet helium-3.

How? What could we possibly do to it?

[426Buddy]

Personally I have no faith that humanity will just band together and save the planet. Our species as a whole is violent, divisive, and self serving. We also have an incredible appetite for destruction. At no time in the history of our species have we not been slaughtering eachother and everything else. I mean there are good individuals but as a whole we are not capable of getting along imo.

So I find it much more plausible that we leave this planet and continue to be the same very flawed animals we are. Or we die here on earth and the planet continues on like we were never here. The idea that we will somehow band together to keep this planet hospitable seems like a fairy tale to me.

[[cancerblack]]

Personally I have no faith that humanity will just band together and save the planet. Our species as a whole is violent, divisive, and self serving. We also have an incredible appetite for destruction. At no time in the history of our species have we not been slaughtering eachother and everything else. I mean there are good individuals but as a whole we are not capable of getting along imo.

So I find it much more plausible that we leave this planet and continue to be the same very flawed animals we are. Or we die here on earth and the planet continues on like we were never here. The idea that we will somehow band together to keep this planet hospitable seems like a fairy tale to me.

I broadly agree, the only upside if we do escape and continue to be awful to each other and anything else we happen to encounter out there, is that we'd be a comparatively short lived horror but get a lot of panspermia done on behalf of our mother rock - arguably worth the trouble if you take a long enough view.

[Immortan Jonesy]

I think a lunar colony should be first just because if you can get anything going there first then the fuel consumption would be different launching from there vs earth, but I personally don't care if anybody wants to try Mars. 

You just aren't going to be junking up Mars.  It is already a dead planet.  Everything will have to be grown to eat and done in habitats, radiation is awful because there is no magnetic field, its freezing cold, low gravity which will mess up food in your bowels, and the lack of surface pressure. 

Like it is a graveyard planet.  Throwing an empty coke can on its surface can't hurt it. 

It's cheaper than ISS, apparently.





▶Costs of an International Lunar Base

[BigDaddyJohn]

Personally I have no faith that humanity will just band together and save the planet. Our species as a whole is violent, divisive, and self serving. We also have an incredible appetite for destruction. At no time in the history of our species have we not been slaughtering eachother and everything else.

Very true unfortunately.

[Kimarhi]

I think a lunar colony should be first just because if you can get anything going there first then the fuel consumption would be different launching from there vs earth, but I personally don't care if anybody wants to try Mars. 

You just aren't going to be junking up Mars.  It is already a dead planet.  Everything will have to be grown to eat and done in habitats, radiation is awful because there is no magnetic field, its freezing cold, low gravity which will mess up food in your bowels, and the lack of surface pressure. 

Like it is a graveyard planet.  Throwing an empty coke can on its surface can't hurt it. 

It's cheaper than ISS, apparently.





▶Costs of an International Lunar Base

Pretty interesting.  Maybe because the ISS has to stay in a perfect orbit, whereas the Lunar Base will not need that technology?

[Immortan Jonesy]

I think a lunar colony should be first just because if you can get anything going there first then the fuel consumption would be different launching from there vs earth, but I personally don't care if anybody wants to try Mars. 

You just aren't going to be junking up Mars.  It is already a dead planet.  Everything will have to be grown to eat and done in habitats, radiation is awful because there is no magnetic field, its freezing cold, low gravity which will mess up food in your bowels, and the lack of surface pressure. 

Like it is a graveyard planet.  Throwing an empty coke can on its surface can't hurt it. 

It's cheaper than ISS, apparently.





▶Costs of an International Lunar Base

Pretty interesting.  Maybe because the ISS has to stay in a perfect orbit, whereas the Lunar Base will not need that technology?

Probably.



▶Higher Altitude Improves Station's Fuel Economy

[Kimarhi]

I think everything in space goes way overbudget.  It will have the same problems that Mars will except it will be much closer (but still far away) than Earth. 


If it goes way underbudget then maybe the darkside of the moon aliens will give the astronauts some tips.