Gradually settling a space colony

There is a point in producing agriculture-friendly soil only if someone
is (for some reason) committed to terraform a planet.

However, if your goal is just to produce food to an off-Earth
civilization, then it will be way simpler and cheaper to just grow your
plants using hydroponics in habitats in space, instead of having the
painful and expensive work of exporting manure from Earth to another
planetary surface... By the way, your (techno-industrial) civilization
would be better in open space, with limitless energy and raw materials
resources, than trapped in yet another planetary surface...

Lucio Coelho

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