It seems strange to me that the space race stopped. Remember 0x10^c? Now we could be travelling space like we were flying by plane or taking a train. People would have more space to live, as Moon (It's a natural satellite, why to stay just with the ISS?), Mars, Phobos, Deimos (Know Doom series?), Ceres, Europa, Titan, and Enceladus (they have some water) would have been colonized. It would be about twice the surface of Earth.
Europeans went into America, murdered all the Indians before putting them into reservations and built there an superpower that won 2 world wars (1st one only because they joined when it was clear that one side was losing) and flood Europe with their Afro-European culture and keep stuffing their so called democracy everywhere by sending warfare to these places. Meanwhile, Putin might choose to offer tax discounts and free Russian classes to people who choose to settle Siberia because the global warming caused mostly by the USSR has made the temperatures just acceptable and Antarctica will get some permanent inhabitants and a government, being capable of being a country. And the USA will keep wasting the tax money on army instead of conquering space. What a handful of independent yet allied (same story with decolonization) countries could be in the Solar system on various celestial bodies.
The lingua franca in the space would be probably English, but it would be nice if every sign was written in at least 4 languages: English (USA - 1st man on the Moon), Russian (USSR 1st (wo)man in the space), Chinese (majority of people, also ) and Alien or local language, if different. (I've watched Gravity, by the way. I would not enjoy searching for Han characters to know what does each button do.) The Czech would fuse with Polish, Russian or English, but I'm working on letting it fuse with Klingon, Japanese and German (again, as it was during Austria-Hungary). See the Getmanese-Czech dictionary, if you are from the West Slavic tribe.
Mercury
A large thermal capacitor is needed. This will compensate 400°C in the day and -200°C in the night into 100°C, which is just fine for boiling food. And from that, there could be loads of daytime thermal generators and solar panels, which would reduce the temperature almost to whatever we feel like.
Venus
For our excessive energy demands, we may put some non-stop working thermal and geothermal electricity generators there. For residential areas, the heat would be swallowed leaving us with a more acceptable temperature. The high temperature would allow for fuel-free barbecue parties to be held. Also, the thick atmosphere would provide for floating cities in temperatures just under 70°C, which is ideal for a tea left on the surface. Just like on Jupiter, but there be too cold for diversity, which is good for ice-cream.
Earth
Lots of free space in Canada, Russia, Brasil (don't cut down trees, build tree houses), China, Saudi Arabia and Antarctica. However, this planet will probably become a museum as there will be nothing to mine without destroying it. But until we find out the universe isn't endless, all non-renewable sources are technically renewable.
For more see another post: http://getmania.blogspot.cz/2014/11/earth-settlement-holes-theres-lot-of.html
Moon
Why there's ISS which can't handle more than a few people yet cost zillions, when the Moon is our natural satellite? Shouldn't we build a base here instead of making it orbit between the rubbish of broken artificial satellites? There would be at least a little gravity and more space for more people. The proximity to Earth would make it the light side reliable ad space as mentioned in the joke where Russians painted the moon red and Americans wrote "Coca-Cola".
Earth's quasi-satellites
While Earth has only 1 genuine moon, there are also few asteroids fumbling around its orbit. These are good for other asteroid mining and landing practice. A small space base could be also built there in place for ISS, which will become too hard to maintain at some point. Also, it can handle only 6 people which are insufficient for a large family vacation. Surely there'll be some space hotels needed. Everybody would like to go into space.
Mars
Some companies are already aiming for this planet to be colonized. There's some frozen water and lots of CO2 already so we don't have to solve global warming problems too much with this planet. On the ground there are lots of iron ore (Fe2O3), that means the industrial revolution would be about to start as soon as people build 1st blast furnace there. The 1st really big thing built will be most probably a cosmodrome so the colonizers can return to Earth and bring back some souvenirs.
I can imagine the planet will be sliced up like America was in a ruler-straight grid. I would like people to respect and use natural boundaries as much as possible, even though there is no active tectonics on Mars. You can start with a grid, but make corrections to it according to the terrain so there won't be any street like Canton Avenue, Baldwin Street, and Bradford Street. Like something I've seen in Finland from Google Earth, make a line and then walk along it to decide the definitive one and not just draw something with a ruler or point on a parallel or meridian and say there will be a boundary. Building a border crossing on a mountain side is quite difficult.
Phobos
Just a piece of rock that will turn into dust in 50 million years because it's slowly falling into Mars' atmosphere. Maybe build there a base, but after some time dismount and move along to Deimos. That huge crater would be nice for a nature dome, but not for too long. The question is, will human civilization still be there after those years?
Deimos
A more suitable in terms of durability, yet a smaller piece of rock. There would be probably a cosmodrome for interstellar travel or a trading post, like on Moon. After when it becomes too heavy it's possible to mine it like every other asteroid. If it becomes way too small, just mine the entire thing. The bases on Mars ain't built of nothing.
Ceres
There can be the undersurface water ocean made more liquid at life-compatible temperature by making global warming or detonating some nuclear bomb in the middle, like in The Core (IIRC the name) movie. People don't want Siberia or Antarctica temperatures. If it fails there could be ice-cream factories.
Other asteroids in Asteroid Belt
Will serve for mining non-renewable resources. After that, they could be cut into bricks and used as a building material on Ceres, Vesta, or any larger thing near.
Europa
Still nearer than Titan or Enceladus. There's a frozen ocean on it. Maybe cutting ice bricks to ship on Moon, Phobos, Deimos and trans-Neptunes?
Enceladus
91% of water vapor and some ocean (liquid!) under the surface and 3.2 % CO2 - ideal for plants to grow there and produce some oxygen. The only problem is that there's going to be cold as hell (yeah, that's an oxymoron) because it's a moon of Saturn. Maybe a source for water to be imported to Mars moons and trans-Neptune celestial bodies.
Pluto
Pluto with its moons would provide an outpost for interchange between interstellar and interplanetary travelling. These would differ mainly in that way interstellar travelling happens at faster-than-light speed because it'd take ages otherwise. On the Pluto itself, there could be a smaller city with hotels for interstellar tourists.
Charon
Build there an elevator from Pluto. This is more likely to be possible than from Earth to Moon because Charon is bigger and orbits some point about 1 Mm above the surface of Pluto.
Eris
Outpost for intergalactic and interstellar travel, like Pluto, but more distance-oriented and less residential. Will probably serve as a complementary for Pluto when it's on the other side of the Solar System.
Other trans-Neptune bodies
Pretty much the same use as asteroids in the Asteroid Belt. Occasionally some dwarf planet will serve as a depository for mined materials.
This article was too long in writing, ever since like June 2014. Grammarly would kick ass weren't I only Czech not to consider it annoying when I write in my own gibberish.
Europeans went into America, murdered all the Indians before putting them into reservations and built there an superpower that won 2 world wars (1st one only because they joined when it was clear that one side was losing) and flood Europe with their Afro-European culture and keep stuffing their so called democracy everywhere by sending warfare to these places. Meanwhile, Putin might choose to offer tax discounts and free Russian classes to people who choose to settle Siberia because the global warming caused mostly by the USSR has made the temperatures just acceptable and Antarctica will get some permanent inhabitants and a government, being capable of being a country. And the USA will keep wasting the tax money on army instead of conquering space. What a handful of independent yet allied (same story with decolonization) countries could be in the Solar system on various celestial bodies.
The lingua franca in the space would be probably English, but it would be nice if every sign was written in at least 4 languages: English (USA - 1st man on the Moon), Russian (USSR 1st (wo)man in the space), Chinese (majority of people, also ) and Alien or local language, if different. (I've watched Gravity, by the way. I would not enjoy searching for Han characters to know what does each button do.) The Czech would fuse with Polish, Russian or English, but I'm working on letting it fuse with Klingon, Japanese and German (again, as it was during Austria-Hungary). See the Getmanese-Czech dictionary, if you are from the West Slavic tribe.
Mercury
A large thermal capacitor is needed. This will compensate 400°C in the day and -200°C in the night into 100°C, which is just fine for boiling food. And from that, there could be loads of daytime thermal generators and solar panels, which would reduce the temperature almost to whatever we feel like.
Venus
For our excessive energy demands, we may put some non-stop working thermal and geothermal electricity generators there. For residential areas, the heat would be swallowed leaving us with a more acceptable temperature. The high temperature would allow for fuel-free barbecue parties to be held. Also, the thick atmosphere would provide for floating cities in temperatures just under 70°C, which is ideal for a tea left on the surface. Just like on Jupiter, but there be too cold for diversity, which is good for ice-cream.
Earth
Lots of free space in Canada, Russia, Brasil (don't cut down trees, build tree houses), China, Saudi Arabia and Antarctica. However, this planet will probably become a museum as there will be nothing to mine without destroying it. But until we find out the universe isn't endless, all non-renewable sources are technically renewable.
For more see another post: http://getmania.blogspot.cz/2014/11/earth-settlement-holes-theres-lot-of.html
Moon
Why there's ISS which can't handle more than a few people yet cost zillions, when the Moon is our natural satellite? Shouldn't we build a base here instead of making it orbit between the rubbish of broken artificial satellites? There would be at least a little gravity and more space for more people. The proximity to Earth would make it the light side reliable ad space as mentioned in the joke where Russians painted the moon red and Americans wrote "Coca-Cola".
Earth's quasi-satellites
While Earth has only 1 genuine moon, there are also few asteroids fumbling around its orbit. These are good for other asteroid mining and landing practice. A small space base could be also built there in place for ISS, which will become too hard to maintain at some point. Also, it can handle only 6 people which are insufficient for a large family vacation. Surely there'll be some space hotels needed. Everybody would like to go into space.
Mars
Some companies are already aiming for this planet to be colonized. There's some frozen water and lots of CO2 already so we don't have to solve global warming problems too much with this planet. On the ground there are lots of iron ore (Fe2O3), that means the industrial revolution would be about to start as soon as people build 1st blast furnace there. The 1st really big thing built will be most probably a cosmodrome so the colonizers can return to Earth and bring back some souvenirs.
I can imagine the planet will be sliced up like America was in a ruler-straight grid. I would like people to respect and use natural boundaries as much as possible, even though there is no active tectonics on Mars. You can start with a grid, but make corrections to it according to the terrain so there won't be any street like Canton Avenue, Baldwin Street, and Bradford Street. Like something I've seen in Finland from Google Earth, make a line and then walk along it to decide the definitive one and not just draw something with a ruler or point on a parallel or meridian and say there will be a boundary. Building a border crossing on a mountain side is quite difficult.
Phobos
Just a piece of rock that will turn into dust in 50 million years because it's slowly falling into Mars' atmosphere. Maybe build there a base, but after some time dismount and move along to Deimos. That huge crater would be nice for a nature dome, but not for too long. The question is, will human civilization still be there after those years?
Deimos
A more suitable in terms of durability, yet a smaller piece of rock. There would be probably a cosmodrome for interstellar travel or a trading post, like on Moon. After when it becomes too heavy it's possible to mine it like every other asteroid. If it becomes way too small, just mine the entire thing. The bases on Mars ain't built of nothing.
Ceres
There can be the undersurface water ocean made more liquid at life-compatible temperature by making global warming or detonating some nuclear bomb in the middle, like in The Core (IIRC the name) movie. People don't want Siberia or Antarctica temperatures. If it fails there could be ice-cream factories.
Other asteroids in Asteroid Belt
Will serve for mining non-renewable resources. After that, they could be cut into bricks and used as a building material on Ceres, Vesta, or any larger thing near.
Europa
Still nearer than Titan or Enceladus. There's a frozen ocean on it. Maybe cutting ice bricks to ship on Moon, Phobos, Deimos and trans-Neptunes?
Enceladus
91% of water vapor and some ocean (liquid!) under the surface and 3.2 % CO2 - ideal for plants to grow there and produce some oxygen. The only problem is that there's going to be cold as hell (yeah, that's an oxymoron) because it's a moon of Saturn. Maybe a source for water to be imported to Mars moons and trans-Neptune celestial bodies.
Pluto
Pluto with its moons would provide an outpost for interchange between interstellar and interplanetary travelling. These would differ mainly in that way interstellar travelling happens at faster-than-light speed because it'd take ages otherwise. On the Pluto itself, there could be a smaller city with hotels for interstellar tourists.
Charon
Build there an elevator from Pluto. This is more likely to be possible than from Earth to Moon because Charon is bigger and orbits some point about 1 Mm above the surface of Pluto.
Eris
Outpost for intergalactic and interstellar travel, like Pluto, but more distance-oriented and less residential. Will probably serve as a complementary for Pluto when it's on the other side of the Solar System.
Other trans-Neptune bodies
Pretty much the same use as asteroids in the Asteroid Belt. Occasionally some dwarf planet will serve as a depository for mined materials.
This article was too long in writing, ever since like June 2014. Grammarly would kick ass weren't I only Czech not to consider it annoying when I write in my own gibberish.
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