Quote:Just an engineering challenge. Put all your mining camps down on the nightside, tunnel them deep before the first dawn, then burrow. Granted, ships'd have to get their on their own, but... I think that's doable. Icebreakers, like.
Mercury: Could work, although the proximity to the sun might be a bit much for mundane gear.
Quote:Considering all the other things wavetech shielding has already been seen to ward off, I hardly think that Jupiter puts out enough power to be... mmm, more than inconvenient.
Jupiter: This, I'm not so sure about. The environment around Jupiter is pretty hostile to every form of life, and almost all the really good resources are stuck down in the heart of the Jovian radiation belts. I'm sure there's people out there, but.... *shrug*
Quote:The Venusian atmosphere is mostly CO2, right? If Venus ships in hydrogen (I think as a metastable solid, but not neccessarily), then between that and the gases already in its atmosphere, the VTP has all the building blocks to synthesize water, hydrocarbons, and amino acids at a potential profit while also forwarding their objective. I can see a triangular trade of hydrogen from Jupiter to Venus, water and simple organics from Venus to Mars or Earth, and food and finished goods from Earth or Mars to Jupiter.
Kuiper Belt: Sure it's nothing but dirty snowballs, but they're movable snowballs. The terraforming projects demand lots of water and organics, and it's easier to farm the Kuiper than to tie up shipping tonnage in moving ice from Callisto.
Besides, unless my memory misleads me, aren't the outer system rings supposed to be made up of ice?
And, Mimas? I love it! And, from the Warsies perspective, Saturn is even more perfect than Jupiter.
Ja, -n
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