Terraforming is probably ominous. But setting up colonies on these locations is the way to the future.
The militarization of space is supposed to be against international law.
This is an interesting problem, because the children would have to spend most of their lives within centrifuges to develop the muscles for regular work. I guess that when generations grow up as space fighters and never visit earth, the centrifugal rotation may be just built in every space station, or the mechanical systems of space stations could be scaled down for reduced human activation force. I would still want at least the girl soldiers to have good sporty shapes there, so I vote for the building of the centrifuges instead of the down scaling. Then we could station children also at planets or moons slightly larger than Earth, to help them naturally grow bigger muscles, so when they lose some in space, it is not a real loss.
Which is why every nation does it so slowly and in a subversive fashion. Maybe this law needs changing, to bring it out in the open, and appropriate the correct amount of money for it. This would boost trade too, in many western deindustrialized slum nations too.
Experiments have been conducted in space where various seeds and algae were taken up and exposed to cosmic radiation, and they happily continued their lives there. Ionizing radiation runs havoc in biological DNA, but ~ 90 % of DNA looks like error correction code for the blueprint. So, under this condition, radiation is only a race against the effectiveness of this error correction program, not an immediate killer. The lack of atmosphere is a bigger problem, but geologists indicate, that even on Earth, plants started in an oxygen less atmosphere, full of sulfur and nitrogen, and there are some that don't even use the atmosphere but minerals only, I think.
You've just reminded me that Venus has a high pressure atmospheric problem too, and high acidicity that corrodes equipment in seconds. Also since has no water, all geological activities are vertical in voulcanism instead of tectonic plate movements. The moon Europa seems better then, although good heating may be necessary these.
Hmmm. Who designed this solar system giving us no life boat when we screw up earth? So unfair.
Well I meant it as a joke, but you are right. By the way, an array of rotating space stations may work too.
Yes, and also there is the universal heat death theory.
Some calculations were done that Earth will lose its orbital momentum when it will be moving through solar material, so it will be falling into the sun. To my understanding, the universal heat death theory is about the entire universe expanding so much, that the distances between elementary particles becomes much larger than what all the physical forces can cover, so every heat resonance stops. And where resonance is not detectable, the location of particles is not detectable either, so the whole thing disappears.
