September 14, 2025

A Story That People Might Have Missed With Everything Else Going On




This is potentially a incredibly awesome discovery that has the potential to be catastrophic for human space exploration. 

If Mars has an environment then environmentalists will ensure that no human foot ever sets foot there. 

OTOH I'm much more in the Dandridge Cole / Gerard K. O'Neil schools of space-settlement

Mars and Titan have major advantages with regard to the ease of resource utilization and will allow a much shallower learning curve, but long term, Space Habitats are probably the way to go. 

Still, It might be good to consider if single celled life is sufficient to declare a celestial body a nature preserve. 

Even if this does come to pass , there is always a chance that there is no life on Titan, and, in any event we do have O'Neil's vision as a fall back position. 
Art by Don Davis

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1 I really want to experience the mind-bendy physics of throwing a ball on an O'Neill colony.

Posted by: Mauser at Tue Sep 16 21:19:00 2025 (XWgGM)

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