Should we A) colonise other planets or B) build habitats in the middle of space, like O’Neill Cylinders and stuff?

@KevinFromSpace@lemmy.ml · 14 hours ago

Should we A) colonise other planets or B) build habitats in the middle of space, like O’Neill Cylinders and stuff?

@MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml · 4 hours ago

Terraforming other planets would be astronomically more challenging than fixing our own planet and we don’t seem to be able to get our shit together to do that. Even if we are capable of terraforming other planets, it would take many centuries at minimum. O’Neal cylinders are far more likely to work once we start industrializing the moon.

HobbitFoot · 23 minutes ago

If the colonization strategy is the Moon then Mars, I expect humanity would have the technology needed to colonize Mars easily while terraforming occurs.

The problem with an O’Neil Cylinder is bringing up enough processed material to build one.