Spaceception

It makes sense on why it has so much fuel; We've never been there long enough to know what surface conditions are like.

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Excellent as usual, I'm really liking TItan.

Well, if I added asteroid moons (The exception being Hyperion, since it looks so weird), I couldn't put up every moon on the poll. But anyway, why do you like them so much? EDIT: Look at the bottom of the poll.

While I talk about Titan sometimes as a really good place for colonization (Btw, lets not get into that, there's several threads already), my favorite moon is Ganymede, Magnetic field, Large size, Awesome surface features, what's not to like?

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There's a lot of moons, yeah, but I want to know, which is your favorite moon and why?

Advanced 3-D printing and robots will speed things up, it will likely take 50-150 years to properly set up a small colony (200k-1 million) regardless, but you have to start somewhere.

There's pretty much all you need to survive on (Sorta, kinda) The Moon, Mars, probably Mercury, Maybe Ganymede and Callisto, and Titan, i.e. Water for Air, Drinking water, Fuel cells, rocket fuel, Methane (On Mars and Titan) for better rocket fuel, Nitrogen for buffer gas, metals have been found on these bodies, which can be used for building more habitats, and the regolith can be used as radiation protection.

That's near-sighted, even the most elaborate of planning won't save us from everything on Earth, sooner or later, we're gonna need to spread out among the solar system and beyond, and I'd rather it be sooner so we don't have to worry about humanity going extinct anytime soon. There may not be a very good chance of humanity going extinct tomorrow, but you don't know everything. That's assuming the survivors know how to grow enough food for a genetically diverse colony that can last hundreds of years until we can re-reach current technology (Also assuming we planned for that situation), colonizing other planets would be much less stressful. They're still better than Mars in some ways (Long-term) and I'd like to know, what's better? Living in a nuclear wasteland and/or Ice-age w/o tech and food, or living on a planet where you have to wear warming or cooling garments?

Probably colonies around other star systems with planets, although that won't work because there isn't a 'decent' business case for it, so until pigs fly and unicorns taxi us between cities, it's not happening.

After reading through these again, I thought of something: The 100 people won't pay for the entire rocket/supplies, it'll be a significant chunk, but not all of it. The rest will come from, well, I mentioned this already, satellite revenue, but ( @Nibb31 ) Also, (Here's a possible business plan) The technologies that would be developed fro the mission would improve life here on Earth (And make tens of billions) So you could imagine that profits from these technologies could also help pay for it (And what would these technologies be? Well, better solar panels, batteries, medical technologies, agricultural technologies, water purification technologies, better communication networks, etc, etc), it's not crazy, look at the MRI, Robotics, cameras, computers, etc, those made tens of billions, and they were intended from space exploration until we altered them for use on Earth, the same would be done for a Mars colony.

Erm... I didn't make the video, someone else did But congrats anyway!

There's plenty of water on Titan, which you can extract oxygen from, which I pointed out in a earlier post. Plus, methane is easier to store than hydrogen.

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I'm not exactly sure how the pressure on Titan is a problem, we can survive it. Once we have Fusion (Which we'll likely have by the time we're on Titan) we'll be able to power a colony easily. Plus the Nitrogen, Ammonia, and Methane can all be used as fertilizer. I read somewhere that the cyanide on TItan wouldn't be much of a problem as the concentration isn't high enough.

Titan has a significant amount of water on it, and from water, you can get oxygen, drinking water, moar rocket fuel, and fuel cells.

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, nice theory.

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You uh... Forgot something.

@RocketSquid 1: You should put up a poll 2: I'd choose Titan, since it has seas of rocket fuel, it's near a moon that probably has life, might have exotic life (Which is even cooler) has a nicely dense atmosphere, weak gravity will make space travel/air travel simple, and it's just an awesome moon.

Good news, hopefully by Friday or Saturday, I'll be able to get Neptune, and any problems you guys have with Jupiter and Saturn, Also, what do you guys want with Nibiru?