RE: Would you live on terraformed Venus?
August 4, 2019 at 9:22 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2019 at 9:25 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(August 4, 2019 at 9:11 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:How would settlements/colonies meet their raw material needs?(August 4, 2019 at 9:08 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: So what? If Venus can’t ever be mined for most of the minerals its own colonies need, the economic proposition of planting colonies on its surface would be greatly reduced.
It doesn't matter. The mineral wealth (or dearth) on other planets is of no moment, as we're never going to exploit it.
Boru
If raw material needs can’t be met locally, then it makes no sense to settle on the surface of other planets.
It would be cheaper to put up orbital habitats around the earth for any number of inhabitants than to plant the inhabitants on the surface of other planets if much of the raw material must be supplied from the earth or from other bodies in space.
