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Off Topic / Re: There is now 9 planets in our solar system.
« on: January 21, 2016, 10:42:05 AM »Not really, they are sending some of the brightest people to mars. They could create a functional colony in less than a year.
It's not exactly that easy, even on the moon. There are far too many obstacles and problems that would have to be dealt with during the construction of the colony, and actually living in it. Solar flares, for one. On the Moon/Mars, if one of those hit the colony, everyone would be dead. There's no atmosphere or magnetic field to protect either of those celestial bodies from the intense radiation and heat that it would let off. There are a couple other specific reasons that I remember reading about, but don't want to say until I can actually get a reliable source to quote them on.