I've been looking around and weirdly enough I can't find a lot of books that deal with Europa or some of the other prominent Jovian satellites (Ganymede, Callisto etc.). Weird because they are supposed to be some of the best options for interplanetary colonization and/or finding alien life, but there seems to be a dearth of sf material actually dealing with their exploration. off the top of my head, Paul McAuley's Quiet War and KSR's Galileo's Dream are ones I can think that directly deal with those moons.
Anything else?
This means no photons, gravitons, whatever-elseitons, etc. can pass through the metal, therefore creating a separate area unaffected by the outside world.
The metal is still affected by particles such as gravitons.
Addendum: It should be noted that these same "Skylite" structure may be on Mars as we see the openings, we just do not know what they open to.
SpaceX is certainly going to the Moon. SpaceX may be landing on the Moon and willing to participate in creating a settlement on the Moon.
While reading this article one should remember there are 2 sides of the Moon, they are rather different from each other. One side, the one we know all too well visually always faces the Earth, the other side, that can only see in pictures, is always facing away from Earth.
The Far Side of the Moon, can be very interesting to Astronomers, if no one else.
What this article does, is provide more information on Lava Tubes and the Scientific Research into using them as Habitats.
The Tubes may or may not provide a maze of roads. Regardless it would be clear that they might all be capable of being connected.
Some of the Northern Lava Tubes and Skylights have never seen the Sun and they may have … quantities of water ice.
One picture is very interesting, where the City of Philadelphia is portrayed in the bottom left corner of a Lava Tube Skylight.
Living Underground on the Moon: How Lava Tubes Could Aid Lunar Colonization
Title basically. I play a lot of ck2 but now I want to play one of those titles for the full colonization experience. Is eu4 or victoria 2 better for it. as in, it’s more prominent in game and more fun.
I would actually want someone to convince me that there is a point to expanding throughout the solar system and setting up large colonies built for a huge influx of people, but so far all I've heard is
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There are some rare materials on some celestial bodies, but even if we could get there in a financially viable way, that would still only mean that there's a point to sending a bunch of robots there to mine out the place, with maybe a skeleton crew hardly larger than the crew of the ISS that carries some sort of kill switch to slag the place in case the robots get up to some naughty shit.
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People are just going to do it cause they can, and, while yes, some people with the money are going to do it just because, I really don't see that resulting in any sort of large-scale colonization of any other places in the solar system.
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People have a natural urge to explore, which is true and has resulted in us advancing to where we are now, but that still doesn't eliminate the problem of financing your little adventure, especially if the places you can mine or make stuff on are already set up to be automatized because of the numerous advantages that has. (There are also still pretty large places on earth that are still unexplored, most if not all of which are more habitable than anything outside of earth in the solar system.)
I might add more points if I find them.
I would appreciate any attempts at explaining if and if yes to what extent there is a likely future of humanity spreading throughout the moons and planets of the solar system.
Say the colonists show back up to Earth after four generations of moon babies. How do they look now? Would they sound different? Would they be able to even be on Earth without hurting their skeletal structure? I’m dying to discuss.
There's lots of land no one lives on. Wouldn't it be better just to go there?
Describe the changes that must be made to the stadium and to the rule las of the game.
I am having trouble thinking of anything. I was thinking of making the ball heavier or making the stadium have more mass so that there is more gravitational pull?
As you all know, increasing swathes of the world are falling under tight restrictions in the hopes of slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). This is has brought the economy in many parts of the world to a virtual halt. (Space is not immune: NASA has suspended work on James Webb and Artemis, and ExoMars 2020 is officially off the table.)
It's important to remember that this is not something that will be over in a week or two. Without a viable treatment (which definitely won't be ready for months in even the best case scenario) or a vaccine (which will take months to over a year), it is very likely that most affected nations will have to stay under "lockdown" for the foreseeable future. While they will have to find ways to at least partially keep their economies running over the coming months, it is very possible that the "coronavirus economy" will devolve into a depression economy. If we're unlucky enough for that to happen, we will become more or less a caretaker generation. Society will be too focused on keeping the essential supply chains running, and with economies limping along on limited government support, space exploration will lose out to things actually matter.
Don't get me wrong. I think it's premature to start writing the obituaries for our dreams, but unless COVID-19 subsides in the northern hemisphere with the end of the flu season (the odds aren't great) or unless the public response in most countries becomes more effective, we are on a very bad trajectory. This would be very unfortunate because, with the growing economic pressure associated with climate change, there's no telling when the next opportunity for Mars will open up. Our fight for the present could be at the expense of the future.
There is more and more talk about colonizing the moon or Mars. I get it, it would be great to explore space. And maybe we need to be prepared for the worst-case scenario should our planet become completely inhospitable. But it seems to me that Earth would have to be really, really bad for Mars or the moon to be a better option. If we "colonized" the Sahara desert or the north pole, it would be way, way more comfortable than Mars. With the oxygen and all. And if we were to settle in places like that, it would be a very long time before we ran out of room.
So why seek to settle on another planet?
