{"id":159526,"date":"2021-01-21T00:16:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T21:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/humans-could-move-to-floating-asteroid-belt-colony-within-15-years\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T00:16:39","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T21:16:39","slug":"humans-could-move-to-floating-asteroid-belt-colony-within-15-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/humans-could-move-to-floating-asteroid-belt-colony-within-15-years\/","title":{"rendered":"#Humans could move to \u2018floating asteroid belt colony\u2019 within 15 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Humans could move to \u2018floating asteroid belt colony\u2019 within 15 years<\/strong>”
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Humans could live on giant orbs floating in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter within the next 15 years.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the bonkers claim made by top scientist Pekka Janhunen, who says millions of people could inhabit a megacity in space by 2026.<\/p>\n

Dr. Janhunen, an astrophysicist at the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki, described his vision in a research paper published this month.<\/p>\n

He laid out the blueprint for floating \u201cmega-satellites\u201d around the dwarf planet Ceres, which lies roughly 325 million miles from Earth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe motivation is to have a settlement with artificial gravity that allows growth beyond Earth\u2019s living area,\u201d Dr Janhunen wrote.<\/p>\n

The vast majority of plots to settle distant worlds revolve around the Moon\u00a0or Mars<\/a>. This is largely due to their close proximity to Earth.<\/p>\n

Dr. Janhunen\u2019s proposal, on the other hand, looks a little further affield.<\/p>\n

His disk-shaped habitat would boast thousands of cylindrical structures, each home to more than 50,000 people.<\/p>\n

Those pods would be linked by powerful magnets and generate artificial gravity by slowly rotating.<\/p>\n

Residents would mine resources from Ceres 600 miles below the settlement and haul them back up using \u201cspace elevators\u201d, Dr Janhunen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLifting the materials from Ceres is energetically cheap compared to processing them into habitats, if a space elevator is used,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause Ceres has low gravity and rotates relatively fast, the space elevator is feasible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ceres \u2013 the largest object in the asteroid belt \u2013 is the best destination for off-world settlements due to its Nitrogen-rich atmosphere, Dr Janhunen added.<\/p>\n

This would allow settlers to more easily create Earth-like conditions than those colonizing the harsher, carbon dioxide-rich environment of Mars.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t solve the threats of rogue asteroids or space radiation, though Dr. Janhunen, who worked with a number of Finnish researchers on the paper, has thought of that, too.<\/p>\n

He proposed that giant, cylindrical mirrors placed around the mega-satellite could protect it from bombardment of all kinds.<\/p>\n

Those mirrors would also focus sunlight onto the habitat for the growth of crops and other plantlife.<\/p>\n

It all sounds pretty rosy, but Dr Janhunen also highlighted a number of issues with the plans.<\/p>\n

For one, there\u2019s the not-so-small hurdle of actually flying people to Ceres.<\/p>\n

Nasa sent a probe there in 2015, a trip<\/a> that took a staggering eight years \u2013 far too long to sustain hundreds of people using current technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dr Janhunen also admitted that the energy required to lift building materials from Ceres to orbit would represent a major obstacle.<\/p>\n

The research was published January 6 in the pre-print journal\u00a0Arxiv.<\/a> It\u2019s not yet been peer-reviewed by scientists.<\/p><\/div>\n

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