Zubrin citisism

an old mountaineer told me that to reach the top you
must climb one step at a time
we all agree on the ultimate advantages of totally
artificial space settlements, they can be located
everywhere on the solar system or exosolar planetary
systems, they can reproduce optimal atmosphere,weather
and gravity conditions for human habitat, they can
expand endleesly and allow mankind to reach entire
galaxies building artificial planets and not being
subject to local planets conditions, most, if not all,
of them will certainly prove hostile to us.
But entire generation s of sci fi culture has been
based on interplanetary flight, and most of us are
still planetcentric.
To reach the ultimate goals of space settlements we
still need to follow some necessary steps.
The Moon and mars are certainly the next ones, despite
their disadvantages and hostility, we need to master
such exraterrestrial habitats, use their resources
develop an affordable space transportation system
technologies before we could successfully use them to
build real space settlements.
So despite most opinions i still believe that the way
to go is to proceed with small but well planned steps
for space development on such bodies and then to the
asteroids in order to acquire all needee technologies
for more ambitiuos ones such as space settlements
--- terrierkeeper ha scritto:

Which is why Space Islands are better than any planet
currently
available for terraformation either mars or Venus or
any moon for
which artificial colonies may be built.

Utimately it is the Space Island that is the Future
for man.

Unfortunately none of the Science articles I come
across mention
this. There are too many talking of Generation Ships
to Solar Systems
which we don't even know if they might have planets
that are
habitable or even if they might have populations of
their own.

Space Islands are safe bet in these aspects as well
and they're
available.

Man must move into space. If learning history has
taught me anything,
it is that viable cultures are those that are
constantly growing.
Meeting challenges and prevailing. Space is they
ultimate field to
provide man with these things.Ample room for expansion
and many
challenges without putting any indingenous peoples pr
species at
hazard.

Unfortunately No One of importance seems to realize
this.

Excuse me for going 'political' but The elite has
taken us down the
path of decadence and limited reproduction to deal
with limited
resources whent the correct path is to move into new
space for
reaching unlimited resources. All our elite has
achieved is narrowing
the human gene pool.

We need to move into space as a matter of human
survival.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Combs, Mike"

>
> From: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
terrierkeeper
>
> > Another critism I have for Mars is that because of
its
> > difference in atmosphere and Gravity any colonist
immigrating
> > to mars will be condemning his decendents to
permenant life
> > on Mars. Their bones will not be strong enough to
handle
> > Earth's gravity.
> >
> > Colonists of Space Islands will not have this
problem so
> > long as their colonies stick with a standard level
of gravity.
>
> Yeah, even on a completely terraformed Mars, not
only the level of
> gravity but also the intensity of the sunlight will
be different
from
> what we're used to. An orbital habitat can have
what we consider
normal
> levels of sunlight, even if built in the outer parts
of the solar
> system.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Combs
>

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