Thread: Space Colonies

I'd like to see man venture more out into space. either that or down into the depths of the ocean. our population will eventualty hit a critical level that the land alone can not handle.
mineing resources is probably how it will start, and the corprations will invent so much more than any one gov. it would end up looking like the anime "Planetes" (if you havent seen this your missing out on great Hard-sci-fi) which is fine if it facilitates progress.
Dont forget the main asteroid fields are beyond Mars, do you think we should mine at the source or have a hunter pick and throw rocks to near earth orbit or moon orbit for prosessing? or even Mars orbit, since it looks like water was once flowing on it, that is the one key ingrediant that we really need to move out into space...it would cost way to much to have to boost water into space for reaction mass or as consumibles, and a colony will drink alot...even with 100% recycling there will be loss..and the thoughts that your drinking clean pee!?
ok so I'm a geek too:P but Im not that brave...i would also wait to see how safe it would be...i think in the begining we are going to need a special kind of person to live

This topic seems VERY familiar... didn't we have one of these a few years back?

What makes me laugh is the inflatable commercial space stations they're launching... ...as great as it must be, I keep laughing at the world "inflatable"... it just reminds me of "POP!"....

... do I think we should?
Meh... if it happens, it happens...
I don't think we should abandon anything though, we should work on past, present, and future projects and never drop one thing over another... afterall, I'd think it'd be disrespectful to just ignore the unconvered ocean that we spent so much time investigating... not only that, but we shouldn't allow Earth to rot in Hell... we have a responsibility to keep it safe and fix it.

So, all-in-all: Go ahead, but don't forget about Earth.

hmm oh its ok Ochi your not a geek your just concerned.

But yeah I have always thought it to be really cool to be able to go up into space and stuff.

Plus we would actually live longer from what I have heard.

But yeah I think it would be cool and I do agree that we will have problems soo with our dwindaling resources.
We really need to worry about that stuff.

if people realy did turn into Newtypes, id go in a heartbeat.


anyway, the ocean is a good idea too, but it would be as hostile as space. a tiny fracture, its all over....

inflatable space colonies? i picture a rubber raft with a bottle rocket engine

as for the asteroids, i like the idea of towing them to earth orbit. this would logically be safer for the miners, as they would be closer. when we are done mining the asteroid, we could use a cheap rocket to, perhaps, send it to the sun for disposal. and mars would be a good idea, but i would think after at least a lunar base is up and running. its a bit far.

and yes, we cannot entirely abando our mother earth.

sry...i had to kinda cut my rant short...but i was saying we would need a special kinda person to be shoe horned into a floating sardine can for extended periods of time...

Earth first! we'll strip mine the other planets later...

as for a lunar base...we are going to need a source of water or its a no go. and we cant boost water to them..what if something goes wrong...no, the colonies will need there own native water source.

o yeah as for the asteroids..i didnt mean tow i ment toss...like shooting them back towards earth with a rail gun of some type...takes less energy and alot faster...just have to strap on retro rockets or something to slow them down once they get here...

if your interested check out a book called "Semper Mars, Luna Marine and Europa Strike" by Ian Douglas for a good ideal of near future space travel and a really neat hard sci-fi story. it offers a realisitic look at what we can make in the near future...

i think we should sweep our own front step before we go conquering others... [got that from a book] that applies to my opinion of Space Places...

and i think living in the ocean would be way cooler than living in space... all the fishes and the freaky fishes with the Christmas lights and dangley things...

but like i said, we could be using all that money to fix up the place we still have a mortgage on, so to speak...

*cough* Excuse me! I actually misread the news!

Discovery Channel :: News - Space :: Inflatable Space Station Design Tested

Apparently the inflatable space stations were TESTS to provide data for COMMERCIAL SPACE STATIONS.

... it seems that companies such as Holiday Inn want a sweet deal in getting the world's first Holiday Space Station, from the sounds of it...

Looks like we're just gonna wing it.



... I'm not sure if they'll finish this wihtin our generation, I sure hope they do, it would be really interesting.