I could be wrong, but I believe it would need to be strengthened structurally to handle the thrust. Then there's going to be a need for some kind of shielding to ward off debris.

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If it takes 3 years to get there and 3 more to get back, it will become a real colony if people persist at the location.

I’m so fucking tired of this lie. You know damn well this isn’t true. Stop spreading misinformation.

Sure, I think reproducing as well. But you may have had different ideas when you said colonize. Creating a mining colony is very different than creating a colony for people to establish themselves for generations.

We can still build our orbital infrastructure.

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The moon is the tutorial. Once unlocked, we can move on to the higher levels with greater dangers and distances. /s

For me when I make the decision to drink my morning espresso I'm really just asking myself if I feel comfortable pooping wherever I will be that morning.

I would propose hyperbolic booster fired in stages and then a fission thruster to do the heavy lifting once the station was a comfortable distance from earth for the radioactive exhaust not to radiate the entire planet. Ion may have a future but would probably require a fission reactor to power it anyway. but I don't think they have even tested them in space yet. One was supposed to ride on the artimis launch but failed.

The true profit was the 499 generations of human civilization we met along the way.

that is what they said about the west of the xusa in 1800. people just have wanderlust.

1000 people living and working above and on Callisto - is that Colonization?

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I am new to this idea. Thanks.

The key would be there are profits to be made every step of the way....

The hole in the Ozone Layer lets them through. Duh.

I felt the same way but ended up enjoying the far future world even more. I want him to write novels describing the other tribes’ experience through the calamity.

Well, there are other reasons, (ice cap movement, coulor), but this is the only one not mentioned, and it is an important factor

And in 1969 everyone thought we’d be on Mars by the end of the century. That being said I am hopeful we make it to Mars in my lifetime. But I also know that overseas wars and the military will always siphon the incredibly large majority of our tax dollars. Geopolitics can derail achievement in space at any moment.

God only $300 dollars???? Okay I might just get my first telescope.

To be fair, Stephenson had them add an entirely new module with a rotating ring that attached to a reconfigured ISS. He didn’t add artificial gravity to the existing ISS.

Because the poles are the central points of the earth gravitational field, so the asteroids get sucked round and round and eventually gravity just pulls them down over the equator. Hope this was helpful!

How the hell can it be getting closer?!?!

You haven’t played the game or dead space have you? You really want to get infected with whatever roams there 😂😂😂