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On the tv show "The Expanse" they spin Ceres up to 0.3g, but Ceres is only like 0.029g. They also don't show that they've stabilized anything on the asteroid.
Ceres also seems to have an iron-rich clay mineral composition with lots of water locked up in it (hydrated minerals). That plus just enough g-force is why it is round, in comparison to smaller asteroids. If it was spun up to 0.3g without complete support, it would fly apart.
I always hate how sparse they are. Most of the land is nothing but water and wilderness. When in actuality the water will be in tanks, there will only be a tiny bit of wilderness like Central Park, and everything else will be life support, waste processing, food growing, technical shit, and living quarters. Unless that is these things are only supporting 100 people at max.
You wouldn't have windows in those, just internal LED lights, otherwise cooling becomes too hard.
Wouldn't they have stuff on the outer surface for growing crops?
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>That steel super structure connected to that white rod
triggered.
>Must be self-sustaining after being initially setup.
What really sustains a colony is going to be economically determined more than any other factor.
The problem is one of purpose. Any permanent colony must be based on trade and not autarky. The whole reason to create a colony is ROI. Resources must be traded for finished goods.
If you mean we should use in-situ resources to contribute to lowering the LCO then that's more feasible.
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>2: ........without technological or genetic augmentations.
why is this a dealbreaker?. it should be standard for humans in the future... coming from a preventative health care perspective
Pretty much all those images trigger me. That one even has sports fields.
As soon as you start altering someone's genes as something they will pass on to their children they are no longer homo sapiens.
If an off-world colony can't be self sustaining then they are going to die out when something trivial happens on Earth that prevents supplies from reaching them. All it takes is one Muhammad to trigger Kessler syndrome around Earth and all space travel is fucked for decades. It is one thing to have less than a dozen people on ISS or a lunar base, it is something else when you have 10k to 100k on a colony.