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Space Colonization Options (Orbiting Stations, planets/moons)

Angry Astronaut has posted an interesting video about using space elevators to colonise the Moon and Mars.

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Sounds like a reasonable proposal, but I haven't thought deeply about the significant engineering challenges that might exist.


He's dreaming.

So many YouTube experts online /s

Excuse me if I don't feel a little bit skeptical
 
Lunar elevators can be done with existing materials…

Some satellites have tethers, keels, etc.

A lunarvator is just that on steroids….with one end always pointing Earthwards.

I wonder how big you could make that.

Dangle something from Titan so Saturn’s gravity could yank huge containers of methane off the surface of Titan.

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For a long while, it was assumed that smaller grains made for better metals.

About that:

Lastly—there is one metal that contracts when heated…iron-rich iron platinum.

That discovery fleshed out by “ZENN:”
 
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