Living in Antarctic - Living in Mars

From: Lucio de Souza Coelho [mailto:lucioc@...]

"space settlements would make manned travels across the Solar System much
easier in the sense that, even if your travel take years, you will be
inside a whole city ..."

True, but the occupants would be the residents of the habitat itself. They
wouldn't be tourists from Earth, which was what I took the earlier post to
be referring to. So, tourists from habitats going planetside? Yeah, I can
see that. I can even see habitats in Mars orbit having `upper levels' that
would be at Mars-normal gravity, so people (tourists, or researchers being
stationed on the surface) can adapt before going groundside. The same idea
could be used with habitats in cislunar space, for those heading to the
Lunar surface.

Dave
"Destiny is not a matter of chance --
it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for --
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