| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["science"],"appCategory":"science","appTitle":"Instead of going to Mars, would it say it isn't smarter to consider colonizing the moon? ... What are the reasons, we don't think about colonizing the moon rather than the Mars?","appBody":"<p>Okay, first of all. </p>\n<p>I'd like to address an elephant in the room.</p>\n<p>Colonizing anything is not an answer to overpopulation.</p>\n<p>There is no conceivable way we could move 4 billion people off the planet.</p>\n<p>It is more about the expansion of the scope of influence our specie have.</p>\n<p>We went to the moon. </p>\n<p>The moon is tiny, and as such, it have a very weak gravitation pull.</p>\n<p>Not very good for maintaining a society. </p>\n<p>In low gravity, plants have problems growing, and animals decrease bone and muscle strength among many things.</p>\n<p>You would have a hard time sustaining any kind of colony in a long run.</p>\n<p>Moon is too small to hold am atmosphere of it's own.</p>\n<p>At least not a one that could be terraformed.</p>\n<p>And the last point.</p>\n<p>Moon does not have a core made out of heavy elements like the Earth and Mars have, at least to my understanding.</p>\n<p>Now, does the Mars have all the things the Moon is lacking?</p>\n<p>Hell to the yes.</p>\n<p>Mars's gravity is significantly smaller than that of the Earth.</p>\n<p>It's 50% smaller on the surface I believe.</p>\n<p>But you cannot accidentally launch yourself into orbit like you could do on the surface of the moon.</p>\n<p>Vegetation could viably grow, and animals could maintain relative health.</p>\n<p>Mars have an atmosphere, </p>\n<p>it is not as thick as the one on earth, but that just means, maybe we would have hard time walking around butt naked if we actually terraform the planet.</p>\n<p>Lastly, if we created appropriate technology,</p>\n<p>we could attempt to re-start the ionosphere around Mars,</p>\n<p>the thing which is why you don't live in a bunker and can go outside without a fear of radiation poisoning. </p>\n<p>The moon never had an ionosphere, but Mars, it very likely had one in the past.</p>\n<p>Mars is much smaller planet compared to Earth, so the geological aging process there was much faster than here.</p>\n<p>Oh and yeah. </p>\n<p>If you decided to become a space nazi and move a billion people or two off planet.</p>\n<p>Well, there's just more space, and resource on Mars.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"fk3n4fbyw","appParentAuthor":"borna","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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