Unregistered said:
colonization method used in Australia comes to mind.....no offense intended
Problem with that is that the colonists may revolt. Check it out - the reason that Australia was colonised is that they could no longer ship their convicts to the Americas. So that accounts for how the USA was colonised.
FolioMark said:
Sure sign me up as long as the planet has decent climate and isnt too sandy. Unless of course they can develop a little hover wheelchair while they are sending us off to Mars. Maybe a nice anti gravity belt so I can float like a balloon.
Well, Mark - I've always said that what I really want from liife is to be a farmer in a hollow asteroid. Tunnel farms towards the centre of spin, where the "gravity" (centrifugal effect) was low might suit you. I'll take that, but I'll also take an inside surface where you've got a lot of "open" space overhead, until ultimately you see the upside-down neighbours far overhead. And I'll also walk out to the "verandah" from time to time for the ultimate in "open-air" views - the universe about you.
Of course, the big thrill is that once you're in a spaceship - and a BIG spaceship is just what that would be - you don't need to stay still. Harvest a few comets for reaction mass, and then set off for the next-best candidate in solar systems, a few light years away. Of course, I wouldn't live to walk on those new worlds, but I'd be taking my own "new world" with me (or it me), and I'd know that my descendants would be some of humanities eggs that had moved to a new basket, rather than being tethered to a single world around a single somewhat unstable star.
Of course, if I can't do that, then terraforming Mars (or even Venus - big job but maybe a bigger payoff than Mars) would be a good step in the right direction.