Comments on: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Galilean Base

By: Tom Kerwick

Tom Kerwick — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:22:31 +0000

To the avid reader: A short paper expanding on the subject-matter of this post titled 'Colonizing Jupiter’s Moons: An Assessment of Our Options and Alternatives' features in the Washington Academy of Sciences' quarterly print journal (Winter 2012 Edition).

By: Tom Kerwick

Tom Kerwick — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:33:56 +0000

Gary — I don’t involve in these decisions. If you or John Hunt have ideas about how to improve the boog send them into [email protected]. I just help out with the web admin.

By: GaryChurch

GaryChurch — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:07:31 +0000

The gravity modifier is on your “advisory board”?
That must be a joke Tom.
Exactly how did he attain this exalted status? He managed to sneak into a conference of some kind or had a paper “accepted”?
This is not right.
Get rid of him. He is just as bad as Otto. Both myself and John Hunt hace been corresponding about how to improve this boog- we believe in the mission completely. It is obvious that the onbly thing Benjamin believes in is baloney.

By: Tom Kerwick

Tom Kerwick — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:10:05 +0000

Gary- steady on. I have just read it now and yes quite a half-baked misrepresentation of the expanding loaf model. Most of us have weak contributions from time to time, even advisory board members such as myself and Benjamin (sic). In any case - I can't do anything about it - we don't want to go down the road of censoring opinion we disagree with, and The Kline Directive series would be considered a series of related topics under one heading and not spamming such as Otto Rossler's until recent abuse of the forums.

By: GaryChurch

GaryChurch — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 06:04:47 +0000

Cannot comment on this with Kline part F making me vomit.

By: Tom Kerwick

Tom Kerwick — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:53:06 +0000

Mike — thanks for the point on astroecology. Yes it has been suggested asteroids can serve as potential future bio-resources — but this does not mean they are suited as first base, or any base for that matter. I could see them mined for such, but the materials transported elsewhere. Some of the larger moons would still win favor where there is an abundance of other materials equally necessary — most notably water/ice — and of course a gravitational field. Giorgio — Yes, underground terraforming would be key here.

By: Michael Mautner

Michael Mautner — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 03:37:03 +0000

It will help that carbonaceous chondtrite materials, similar to C type asteroids, have high biological fertiltiy, and will be suitable for growing food and constructing biomass. Please see Astroecology article in wikipedia and links to papers there, especially the 2002 Icarus paper. For several reasons, asteroids may be our best first bases in the Solar System.

By: Giorgio Gaviraghi

Giorgio Gaviraghi — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:43:38 +0000

I strongly believe that manned settlement construction can be implemented in most bodies of the solar system, even the most hostile. With underground Terraforming techniques we can have safe , shirtsleeve environment facilities where humans ans robots can be part of developing each available body, moon, asteroid , even comets. With the exception of gas planets with their extremely high gravity unbearable by humans the entire solar system could be colonized. A combination of manned and unmanned stations can dot the system and jumpstart a space economy as a prelude for Interstellar travel capability.
Traveling settlements in hollowed-up asteroids can provide mission support in remote locations while shileding humans fro radiations and space hazards.