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@yogthos Our first terraforming goal should be the Earth. Make Earth life sustaining.
@yogthos Good, good. :blobcat_uwu:
I stumbled on a random weird dude’s blog a while ago that had a compelling argument for colonizing Mercury, I guess there’s a band around the planet where an underground settlement would be at a pretty comfortable temperature year round, plus water deposits in various craters and shit
Seems about as plausible as colonizing Mars is
Of course google is useless for finding this guy’s blog post
The big problem with Mercury is that it’s actually very expensive to get to in terms of energy, hence why we’ve had very few missions to it. On the other hand, Venus is a surprisingly good candidate. While it’s hellish at ground level. There is a layer of upper atmosphere that has effectively Earth like conditions in terms of temperature and and ambient pressure. And you have a ton of volatiles in the atmosphere that could be harvested. So you could technically build cloud cities there. The main problem is that the atmosphere is fairly corrosive, so you’d need materials that wouldn’t degrade in it.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161019-the-amazing-cloud-cities-we-could-build-on-venus
I don’t think you can do that though because it can’t hold on to an atmosphere
What? You don’t want pea sized rocks smashing through your hermetically sealed living space?
The moon could theoretically keep an Earth density atmosphere, but only for a fairly short time of maybe 1000 years or so. However, even if that could somehow be achieved there would still be some problems. For example, in longest days of the night, the atmosphere might freeze. It would also have a high wind volume, at the day/night terminator. It would lose a lot of its atmosphere due to Solar Wind and simple lose by having too much energy.
