Posts tagged space-colonization
Current Settings Humanity could no longer access earth for some reason (it could be anything from alien invasion, third world war, ecological disaster, etc) starting at 2028, and they know about t...
So SpaceX and the like are well underway to colonizing the Moon, but they've hit a snag. The colonists, of course, need water--and lots of it, for drinking, preparing food, growing plants, breathin...
Consider yourself a decision maker for a fledgling space infrastructure project. You've been tasked with establishing the first few extraterrestrial colonies for your species. What aspects of the...
I am creating a history for my galactic civilization, and was thinking that the first colonization ship might be launched around the year 2200. World War Three Just a few years from now, a third ...
I want to have a strict and complicated caste system in my future space society (on a planet or a large space station). What would be the reasons and how would the system develop? Possible reasons...
I am trying to figure out how to make a moon (75% of Earth size) of a gas giant habitable. To give an idea of the technological level, here are technologies the colonists have access to: fully a...
How would a horizon inside of a ring or a toroid look like? As if a planet's surface was concave, instead of convex, how far away would the horizon appear? Im trying to get a handle on what the in...
A lifeless moon of a gas giant (which orbits a K-type star [4200K] at about 0.7 AU) is chosen to become home to a space colony. Colonists plan to transform it from a barren rock into a garden of Ed...
The Question What would be an efficient and relatively low-cost solution for collecting and recycling of space junk? The most important criterion of effectiveness is the ability to remove even sm...
Set in the 23rd Century, space tourism has matured. The scientists gathered at a summit to discuss plans for terraforming Mars, therefore the Mars colonists living inside a temporary biosphere will...
The idea of an elevator reaching to the near cosmos is very tantalizing when trying to think of ways off planet. A major draw back to this idea is that a long, thin tower into the atmosphere seem l...
NASA has sent a crew of 100 people on Mars to start a colony. The crew was in cryogenic sleep during their trip to save food and water. And after the 6-month journey, they have reached Mars. My que...
A K3 civilization is a civilization that has access to the amount of power generated by a galaxy. Such a civilization would span 100s of galaxies. How can it exist as one entity if it takes thousan...
The idea of forming a new country on Earth has been discussed previously: Can I still form a new country? and setting up a new colony on the moon has been noted here: How would today's nations r...
The idea of the trope is that at some point, Earth is doomed, humans flee into the stars, knowledge of Earth is lost in the process, eventually becoming legend or myth, either due to loss of inform...
An uploaded personality, after spending 100 years as a biological human and 40 years as a post-human brain made of silicon (and later carbon) semiconductors plugged into a rack, decides to emigrate...
Imagine humans discover FTL travel and they send a crew of 100 people: 1 captain 2 pilots 2 copilots 40 scientists/doctors 20 soldiers 30 engineers 5 robots What supplies would they bring with ...
If humans colonize Mars how will the 2 societies (Mars inhabitants and Earth inhabitants) be able to synchronize and cooperate regarding time? Since: Martian days and years are different than the...
I'm thinking of a world where the earth's moon is densely crowded with dark materials. Solar power plants, dark buildings covered with radiation shielding, large dark open pit mines etc. Imagine th...
My story opens with an old man who arrives at his "personal" asteroid somewhere out in space. When he arrives, everything is powered down and he has to bring systems online before he can take his s...
With our current technology we're able to travel through our Solar System (and beyond) during at least a human lifetime. Is it physically possible that a star system has more intelligent lifeforms...
I'd like to have a community of humans live indefinitely in space habitats (think space stations supporting mining operations in the asteroid belt). The technology would be "day after tomorrow"-le...
Last Tuesday, as every Halloween, I re-watched the Cowboy Bebop movie. For those who don't know, it is a sci-fi anime set around the solar system in an hypothetical future. This question focuses o...
I have a question that concerns a story I am writing and I hope it is a valid one to ask. But in my story, several groups of colonists, each arriving on different ships at relatively the same time...
My story involves a groups of colonists from a near post-apocalyptic Earth settling on a nearby, newly discovered habitable world, each colony separated and unknown to the others initially. Through...
Let's say you've either cloned yourself a native population (the ethical option) or taken a bunch of volunteers and wiped all their memories of modern technology and society (the slightly more mora...
In commentaries to my other question @JustinThyme suggested that high-functioning autists could be the best space colonists: A great deal of very successful scientists ARE autistic. Einstein, f...
The situation is that an alien race transplanted a single tribe of about 10,000 primitive genetically homogeneous humans to a distant but livable planet. I want to know how much this initial popula...
In my project, which portrays a modern take on the classic Asimovian "human empire among the stars", I have a society connected by stable wormholes which are as instantaneous as the portals in the ...
Consider a space opera sort of universe in which there exist communities of water-dwelling humanoids. These ocean people are derived from rootstock humans, descendants of genetically engineered hum...
In the MARS series of National Geographic, an organisation is steadily colonizing Mars by sending a handful of people every few months. However, these aren't ordinary people, of course; they are to...
QUESTION So recently I was doing research on Magnetic Coil based weaponry in the Halo universe, and while reading about how the "Super Mac" worked, I noticed that the theoretical speeds at which t...
250 years in the future, humanity has colonized Mars and the Moon, and built thousands of orbiting outposts and hundreds of O'Neill cylinders in the zone between Venus and Jupiter. The key enabler ...
I may not have been paying as much attention as perhaps I could but I have the impression that, in fiction and reality, most civilian space habitats, whether ships or stations use a relatively thic...
A colony ship is sent to Enceladus. It has a nuclear reactor to provide power to life support, electric engines etc... Upon arrival, the colonists also need a reactor to melt holes into the ice and...
Moon's surface is about thirty million square kilometers large. That's a lot of plastic, but no bigger effort than many other terraforming projects we have discussed. Description: A global bubbl...
My space colonists (160 people) are mostly scientists with at least two advanced degrees and some research experience. They all speak English because it is a language of science today. However, the...
I am trying to figure out how to build a human colony on a moon (75% of Earth size) of a gas giant. Some details of the planetary system chosen for colonisation: K-type main sequence star (about...
If I were to attempt the colonization of a planet with preexisting life, how would I manage to pinpoint a candidate planet from the comforts of Earth's orbit? I am interested in the stars somewhere...
I'm picturing an universe where FTL travel was invented as a sort-of-fluke, and artificial gravity technology isn't available. Transit between star-systems takes at least a few days and a star's gr...
What would be the best way to send energy that is generated outside the Earth's atmosphere, possibly in the asteroid belt (nevermind the means), so that it can be used on the surface of the planet?...
I see a lot of media describing large space colonies, and am curious as to how they got there. I'll admit, I'm mostly inspired by Interstellar here. So here's the scenario: A group of 600 settlers...
So, astronomers discover that ~100 years Earth will be destroyed or rendered uninhabitable by a black hole passing through our Solar System. Governments around the world focus on ensuring Humanity'...
Star A Mass: 1.2 x Sol Radius: 1.157 x Sol Luminosity: 2.074 x Sol Temperature: 6,444 K Star B Mass: 0.63 x Sol Radius 0.691 x Sol Luminosity: 0.158 x Sol Temperature: 4,378 K Semi-Major ...
My question is about a far off and seclusive colony in the reaches of the Orion nebula. As they are relatively isolated they have resorted to harvesting the nebula itself for resources. What I wa...
My current story is set inside a hollowed out dwarf planet (i.e. Ceres) with an artificial gravity generating "mesh" within the shell. This Gravity Mesh can generate a gravitational field that can...
I am writing a story where the main setting is a hollowed out asteroid with an interior biosphere and an exterior city. In this case, using centripetal force to simulate gravity would not work, be...
The time is The Future. Humanity is spreading throughout the stars, aided by the invention of Schwarzschild gates. The gates allow for FTL travel by tearing open wormholes in space. There are thre...
There is a settlement moving along the terminator line on Mercury: I can build it within $\pm 2^{o}$ of the terminator, that is, in the daylight side or the night side. There are going to be lots o...
What technology will humanity use the first time it moves a planet? In the near-ish future, humanity has colonized Mars which has since become self-sustaining and independent, as well as various o...
