Resources
- Wiki Notes
- space habitation, space settlements, self-sufficient space colonies that can self-replicate
- Beyond Planet Earth - crops in space
- survival of human civilization
- past the existence of the solar system? had colonized other planets? but had to abandon?
- colonization targets in surrounding stars?
- space colonization as NASA’s ultimate goal - single-planet species will not survive
- space resources
- asteroid mining - water and materials
- Optical mining is the term NASA uses to describe extracting materials from asteroids.
- mining and fuel stations needed
- asteroid mining - water and materials
- difficulties
- The issues of human dignity, morality, philosophy, culture, bioethics, and the threat of megalomaniac leaders in these new “societies” would all have to be addressed in order for space colonization to meet the psychological and social needs of people living in isolated colonies.
- radiation - (see the 100?)
- To reach such targets travel times of millennia would be necessary, with current technology. At average speeds of even 0.1% of the speed of light (c) interstellar expansion across the entire Milky Way Galaxy would take up to one-half of the Sun’s galactic orbital period of ~240,000,000 years, which is comparable to the timescale of other galactic processes.
- ship details
- artificial gravity
- crops
- generation ship / sleeper_
- nuclear powered? Possible technical failures