Post ASsfBzc3ApSLehLWc4 by charles_perkins@mastodon.sdf.org
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 (DIR) Post #ASsfBzc3ApSLehLWc4 by charles_perkins@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-02-20T19:19:30Z
       
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       Mars? It is smaller than Earth and we have filled Earth up. Also taking all your material balling it up and walking around on it is a terrible way to arrange things. Especially when all the really good stuff is at the core where you can't get at it.What we should do is go to the asteroids, melt the stony and metallic ones, blow them into bubbles, spin them, put a window on axis and point them at the sun.Life is all about surface area catching sunlight. We could have so much more of that.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASsfC0L4TRT7uKPTmq by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-02-20T19:37:33Z
       
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       @charles_perkins Mars is smaller than Earth, and gets half the sunlight (thank you, inverse square law). So it stands to reason that, no matter how enthusiastically we "terraform" Mars, it could never be as hospitable to our form of life as Earth is. Now, most of the surface area of Earth is inhospitable to humans for one reason or another.Mars could potentially support a billion or two people, but why? The O'Neill future is far more attractive.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASsfC0qca8hpUBAfxo by charles_perkins@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-02-20T19:28:43Z
       
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       stretch goal: Disassemble Mars for more asteroid habitat material