Order of Solar System Colonization

As human population continues to grow and need for raw resources grow, various nations and private organizations begin colonization efforts of our Solar System beyond the blue and green sphere we call home.

For this question we are assuming that there have been no drastic changes to:

• World cultures
• World governments
• World economies
• Current human technologies

So, while all of these can advance or shift, they are fundamentally comparable to what we have today, in late 2016. To this end, planet-wide terraforming, for example, is out of the question, and we're probably not crafting Dyson structures. Colonization efforts are limited to what is remotely realistic through the filter of where we stand today, and will stand over the next handful of decades.

The question has two sides to it:

• What planetary bodies would these colonization efforts realistically extend over (the first half dozen or so)
• What order of colonization/approximate timespan is reasonable for these efforts?

posted about 8 years ago

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