• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Maybe looking at it the wrong way. Mars becomes a place to visit. Turn it into an ecosystem full of stuff that can survive the low gravity. Insects and plants. You know after you stripmine it.

    Go visit the weird ass nature reserves from your spinning space habitat.

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      6 months ago

      That’s certainly an option, but right now it seems most space agencies are totally ignoring Venus as a possibility, and are focused on a Mars colony.

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        6 months ago

        Well Mars colony would be easier at the moment.

        As much as I don’t particularly like the man I think Bezos was right. We already have a place with ideal gravity. The future should be orbiting colonies. Imagine processes that could be done under fully controlled conditions.