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Comments by "Alan Friesen" (@alanfriesen9837) on "The Top 5 Places We Could Colonize In Our Solar System | Answers With Joe" video.
I'm not sure why we have to limit ourselves to either planets or spaceships. In the short term space stations probably would be easier but they will always be dependent on imported material for growth and replenishment of lost resources. Eventually, planetary colonies will be able to use local resources for sustenance and growth of population and industry which would be more efficient and forgiving for the colonists. I think we should be colonizing everything in the solar system that we can including the empty space between things. I think Luna is the place to start and I think Venus will be the best location outside Earth in the long run. As an aside, I think Luna has a militarily strategic aspect that could make it easier to secure funding for. It is, after all, the only satellite that can't be blown out of the sky.
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Any serious interstellar exploration and colonization would look like nothing you see on the television screen because moving human bodies and their habitats is ridiculously inefficient. Anyone travelling through space beyond the solar system will most-likely be doing it aboard a microchip or an energy beam. Movies, TV shows and video games usually require human actors, or at least their producers think that audiences will be more interested if they see people walking around. It also reduces the costs of special effects substantially, for now.
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There's also a lot more potential floor space on planets and moons and the costs of moving things around in space is high. It's so high that trade is unlikely and market capitalism actually suppresses innovation unless the habitations are very close to each other. On a planet's surface movement dynamics between sources and consumers make trade viable between intraplanetary settlements even if the planets are more isolated from each other.
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But you've been cold to me so long I'm crying icicles instead of tears. If you build a Dyson sphere between us and the sun we may have a bit of a heating issue.
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Yeah I know. I don't think it would be difficult to have it operate like Venetian blinds where every time an orbiting location that needed solar energy (like the Earth) passed behind slats could be opened wholly or partially depending on their needs. I just wanted to point out that if you didn't do something like that, you'd be blotting out the sun.
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Not at this time, but you could have communications receptors and transponders with mobility or protectively buried that an Earth-bound system could access for about half of every day.
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