habitable planets

[Gawdzilla Sama]

To anyone who is interested in the true future of humanity, I give you https://www.isaacarthur.net/

FORGET PLANETS! You don't colonize planets - you build them. Our future in space is in rotating habitats that provide exactly the conditions we need or want. We can build enough of these with resources in our own solar system to provide living space for trillions of people - if we want to. I personally hope we will lose our desire to mindlessly reproduce ourselves like a cancer.

The bottom line though is that planets are NOT an ideal place to live. Their gravity well makes them difficult to travel from. The same gravity well pulls in asteroids and comets that can kill us. We originated on a planet but we must not remain tied to it or others like it. We originated on a planet but remaining there is like a baby remaining in a crib.

And we'll have that capacity before this planet goes into the shitter?