Piiiiiigs in sppppaaaaaaace

[Rosie]

I agree with Andrew, in that Mars is the better starter planet. Although it has no atmosphere, I believe that it would be easier to transport extra water, and CO2 there and establish a greenhouse. The atmosphere of Venus is made worse by its slow retrograde(backward) rotation. A day on venus is slightly longer than its rotation. 280ish days of day heats it up so much that when the darkside cools it cannot cool enough. The slow rate at which it revolves also makes it immpossible for a magnetic field to be strong enough to diflect the Solar winds. The Gamma rays cannot be blocked and would kill all plant life that we attepmted to start, given the solar blocker worked.

In all honesty I believe that the next stepping stone for mankind will be one of the moons of Jupiter. Europa has abundant liquid water to harvest and the Sun will only get larger as it approaches the end of its life cycle.

[Curdy]

even if we where to go further out into space we do need to solve the radiation issues further out, its all good getting out there wont be good if everyone who does turns to jelly

[ZERO]

That is why I was suggesting the giant planetary shield. Think in the future with better materials and technology we should be able to at low cost basically turn the entire planet into an enclosed climate controlled structure. Artificial light could simulate more earth like lighting or a means to rout the sunlight in such a manor could also work. The structure itself could also shield the planet in place of its poor magnetic field. Although it is mars that basically had no magnetic field and the problem with mars is that any atmosphere we create will be blow off due to solar winds and the low gravity. Ultimately we may need to somehow enclose mars as well in order to prevent the atmosphere from being removed.

I just like to imagine that if we truly are going to start to colonize we need to think of radical approaches to creating earth like conditions for large areas.

[Curdy]

That is why I was suggesting the giant planetary shield. Think in the future with better materials and technology we should be able to at low cost basically turn the entire planet into an enclosed climate controlled structure. Artificial light could simulate more earth like lighting or a means to rout the sunlight in such a manor could also work. The structure itself could also shield the planet in place of its poor magnetic field. Although it is mars that basically had no magnetic field and the problem with mars is that any atmosphere we create will be blow off due to solar winds and the low gravity. Ultimately we may need to somehow enclose mars as well in order to prevent the atmosphere from being removed.

I just like to imagine that if we truly are going to start to colonize we need to think of radical approaches to creating earth like conditions for large areas.

Faster than light travel is another all important quest for science, pisses me off that its not talked about enough

[Rosie]

Faster than light travel is another all important quest for science, pisses me off that its not talked about enough

I believe they are scared of what will happen as you cross that barrier. The trouble I see with it is comunications will be obsolete. Radiowaves will only travel the speed of light. So if you traveled at 2x that speed your comunications would be delayed by a year.

[Curdy]

I believe they are scared of what will happen as you cross that barrier. The trouble I see with it is comunications will be obsolete. Radiowaves will only travel the speed of light. So if you traveled at 2x that speed your comunications would be delayed by a year.

true but either way it only long term solution to deep space travel since our solar system wont last for ever, unless anyone is up for long term travel, which im not.

[ZERO]

The problem is that you can not go faster than light this we know for sure. However what we can do is alter space so that the distance is shorter.