Timeline for How to decide if a Planet is better off to be Terraformed or Stripmined?
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| Dec 29, 2021 at 18:48 | answer | added | Vladimir Silver | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jun 26, 2020 at 17:25 | answer | added | ghosts_in_the_code | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 25, 2020 at 20:42 | comment | added | user662852 | In the classic game "Spaceward Ho!" strip mine if the gravity is below 0.35 G or above 2 G. Terraform in the sweet spot. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceward_Ho! | |
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| Jun 25, 2020 at 9:12 | comment | added | Michael | @Mon: Gravity doesn’t have to be an obstacle if your civilisation can cheaply transport stuff to space, for example using a space elevator or reusable rockets. Gravity is a result of mass. It means that there is a lot of stuff there. It could even be that it doesn’t make sense to establish all the mining infrastructure on smaller bodies. | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 23:56 | answer | added | DKNguyen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 22:53 | comment | added | JesseM | OP said no FTL, and use our solar system for examples. Given our current tech, we can't effectively do either, but if at all, we'd likely terraform Mars and mine the rest. Clarification: what's our energy budget and tech level for each? It's going to come down to cost / value. A species would do what's most efficient. If I have near zero cost mining or terraforming, but not both, I'll use the cheap one most of the time. | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 22:45 | answer | added | LazyReader | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 22:33 | comment | added | cowlinator | Your civilization's need for materials is likely to grow much faster than it's need for habitable living space. Most planets will be strip-mined, only a few will be terraformed. | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 22:09 | comment | added | Issel | Any planet you are strip mining you have to fight against gravity to recover the resources. Meanwhile, its estimated there are 10's of trillions of dollars in rare resources in the asteroid belt. The future of mining resources lies there. | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 21:24 | comment | added | user535733 | @DKNguyen an excellent point. Consider expanding it ever so slightly into an answer.... | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 21:16 | answer | added | Rob Watts | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 20:53 | comment | added | gen-ℤ ready to perish | @user535733 If you’ve lived out of gravity long enough that you’ve never had sex in it, then I bet it would be pretty difficult to do physical work against gravity for that long, lol! | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 16:17 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 15:58 | answer | added | Nosajimiki | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 15:33 | answer | added | parasoup | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 15:15 | comment | added | DKNguyen | Why can't you stripmine it then terraform it? | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 15:07 | answer | added | David Hambling | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 13:39 | answer | added | Codes with Hammer | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 13:01 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Why not both? No, really, Why Not Both? <-- there, minimum comment length handled | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 11:06 | answer | added | Dan W | timeline score: 31 | |
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| Jun 24, 2020 at 6:59 | answer | added | Mr. Anderson | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 5:49 | answer | added | Ryan_L | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 4:17 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 4:04 | comment | added | Mon | Have to agree with user535733. A space faring civilization would tend to ignore bodies with large gravity wells for mining purposes. If someone arrived in our solar system and found a dead earth it would not be their first pick for mining - the moon or asteroids yes. Earth no. The exception would be if the planet in question had a lot a rare elements in its crust. If they really wanted to mine planets the best option would be to literally blow them up via a large kinetic impacts then harvest the smaller pieces (planetary cores would be useful - lots of metals). Needs careful planning though. | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 4:04 | comment | added | Cadence | Market forces. Let the people vote with their wallets about how they'd like their planets to be developed. | |
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| Jun 24, 2020 at 3:10 | comment | added | user535733 | If you can cross space, then why bother doing either activity at the bottom of a gravity well? Lots of room for billions of orbital habitats, and plenty of asteroidal material floating around. Might vacation by a "beach" or a "mountain" or a "desert" just for the novelty value, maybe try non-zero-gee sex for the same reason. But live or work there? Bah. | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 3:01 | comment | added | CYCLOPSCORE | Well, those would be a start. | |
| Jun 24, 2020 at 3:00 | comment | added | user6760 | can we assume the planets lie in the Goldilocks zone? nice question btw ;D | |
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