0-G problems

Mike:

When I said "evolve" I mean in the long term; really
in the long term. Ten of thousands of years more, at
least.

Meanwhile, the only way to colonize space is by
building space settlements, as the ones proposed by
O'Neill. We all of us agree in that point, I think.

The only advantage (that I foresee) of humans adapted
to gravity, is that space cities could grow in three
dimensions, and would be more flexible and cheaper
than space settlements. But this is only speculation.
The only proposals that are based in facts, and sound
science, are the ones of rotating cities.

By the way, I believe in the future people will
populate the moon and mars building in their surfaces,
but I also believe that space settlement is the way
mankind will use to colonize Jupiter and Saturn. The
satellites of those planets may hold lots of
resources, and It just doesn't make sense to establish
posts in those surfaces. It isn't possible either to
land in those huge planets. So, there space settlement
have the lead.

Omar Vega

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