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Raoul — (archived)

It's easier to support a colony on Mars than any where else BESIDES Earth.

How about 55 km from Venus' surface? Granted, no permanent ground but very close to 1G, one bar and temperatures of 50 degrees C.

Why should a solid surface matter when nowhere in the solar system, besides Earth, are there conditions approaching those on Earth?

The Moon is loaded with dust, has no atmosphere and is mineral-poor, BUT it is next door. It's closeness allows for regular trips back to Earth
and therefore cancels the very low gravity issues.

Mars has an atmosphere, has useful minerals, BUT it is so far remote and also dusty and with a very low gravity. Because of its distance (I do also believe distance matters because it affects time), the low gravity becomes much more an issue.

There is another place where man could live : space itself. He'd have to to take everything with him, build a station. But he woudln't have to go very far, could create or not gravitational environments. He could travel with that station or stay close to home.

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