/sci/ - Science & Math

Jesus this thread is a shitshow but I’m gonna try and explain some stuff.

1) Orbital habitats are great but they require very advanced construction technologies that either don’t exist today, or haven’t been used on a scale like that (in space). Also an orbital Colony lacks access to resuources unless it’s somehow hooked to an asteroid, but at that point it still has a very finite supply.

Now a manned mars base may not have the best living conditions, but it uses current tech and doesn’t require any huge advances in construction technology. We can build a mars base right now, but not a 1 kilometer wide rotating wheel.

2) That faggot whose flaming SpaceX is retarded, don’t respond to him.

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I always thought that the moon may be an airless world, but it has (just) enough resources that we could make colonies there.

Like Mars is better but in a dire situation we could get a hundred or maybe two or three hundred people Living at the Lunar pole if we want some sort of safe drive against excitnction.

Also I always thought the idea of having a permanent void in the sky as being Kino.