0 sats \ 9 replies \ @Satosora 12 Jun \ parent \ on: 'Iron snow' brings hope for finding life on Jupiter's moon Europa news
Astroids dont have a steady orbit...do they?
Anything can have a steady orbit if you do the math and make it have a steady orbit.
Probably wouldn't have the asteroid belt, or rings on Saturn, if asteroids couldn't have a steady orbit.
However, I would grant you that the human inside the asteroid would probably mess with that, but they would also expend energy to keep it on course.
Also if we got big enough, we could all join homes in a ring (you could think of it like the first layer of a dyson sphere) and all have a steady orbit together and correct together.
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No it would be the same work because the moon doesn't have an atmosphere and neither does Mars and nothing can grow on Mars without planet wide changes (literal intentional climate change) so you have to build these self contained habitats either way.
Whereas with an asteroid, you can just heat it up (by bringing it closer to the sun) and the denser part will go to the center and the less dense part will be on the outside, then you put this droplet of water in the middle, seal it up and heat it up again and boom big iron and nickel bubble you can decorate and put a door on and air cycling system etc.
Figuring out orbits and self correcting is a computers job.
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I had never heard this strategy before. That's really interesting.
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The moon and mars are not less work lol.
Since you're into this, I recommend you read "The Space Trade" by Paul Turner
Its about how an entrepreneur might be able to make a profit in space development and how things might slowly but naturally build out
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You did not read what I wrote. You are not terraforming an asteroid lol. You are building space stations with asteroids (that may be interlinkable, sometimes very large in the case of public spaces or self contained ecosystem projects)
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