Reply #16: the moon by far you named that tune in just one note [View All]

[pitohui]

we don't have to worry abt the atmosphere leaking away because we live on human time scales not geological time scales, once we got an atmosphere up and running it'll be there for the petty tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands that our species is likely to survive...and if we go further, we'll eventually get the tech to allow us to keep that atmosphere, we don't have to solve life, the universe, and everything after only 10K years of civilization, leave something for the next guy to accomplish!

second to be terra formed will be various and sundry asteroids

why put up w. gravity and its discontents if you don't have to?

in the future people will live a long time and they won't want to live 400 years w. joint pain, low grav will suit them to a tee

mars & venus will be left closer to what they are...perhaps changed a little to allow for cool hiking vacations or something but we're gonna leave planets behind as a place to live, they don't make much sense...planets are large, have gravity (which is unsafe and causes pain to long lived organisms plus wrinkles and titty droop), expensive to get lift-off (that stupid gravity again), and once they have an atmosphere they have this bullshit called weather -- look at all the trouble weather has caused on earth, i'm not moving to outer space to fight more fucking fires, hurricanes, and tornadoes, if i go to outer space i want WEATHER UNDER CONTROL and decent safe living conditions...that means artificial...moon and asteroids...the asteroids alone could support hundreds of billions of humans if properly terra formed

nobody is gonna wanna live in a gravity "slum," people will pity the fool who still lives on earth!