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Will we be able to build bases there and just have enclosed terraformed oxygen domes with animals and plants where people can just live their lives happily. Could there be a new nation established there where all the gifted people or autists get to go away from the NPCs.

>> No.10241508

Terraforming is a meme.

Stations can be built to simulate earth gravity, and there's no gravitational body to fight.

At most, planets and satellites will provide research and exploration, not colonization.

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Building a small scientific base? Possibly. But it would be very expensive. Even more expensive then the International space station. If we are willing to spend billions and billions every year for this.
If these scientists discover something worth digging out we might some day build a mining station. But you would work hard to get there and work even harder if you are there. Your life and family would still be on Earth.
Colonizing? No! Certainly not in your lifetime. Probably never.

>> No.10241518

Someone needs to fucking build a small centrifuge in space and stick some rats inside it so we can get some long term tests at different gravity levels. The fact this hasn't been done already is fucking insulting when they send up the millionth "rats in 0g experiment" like hello we know 0g sucks, fucking move on. This entire exercise is a pointless waste of time if we don't know what gravity is suitable for long term habitation. If you have to build spin habitats on the surface of a planet then it is literally more work than it's worth and just forget about it and build them in space.

>> No.10241806

>>10241518
>Someone needs to fucking build a small centrifuge in space and stick some rats inside it so we can get some long term tests at different gravity levels.
Yeah, I'm upset about that too. We know what 0g and 1g look like, but everything between is almost a complete mystery. What are the long-term health effects of 0.5g? Nobody knows.
Supposedly there was supposed to be a spin-gravity section on the ISS, but it got dropped for (obvious) budget reasons. Personally, I suspect a spun tether-based station would be more practical.