Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:37:51 UTC No. 16590519

>>16590037
life in space is the most hellish life possible

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:19:10 UTC No. 16590954

>>16590037
>There's easily accessible water and organics in the poles and more in the volatile rich layer under the crust.
May I see a picture of said water and organics?

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:33:02 UTC No. 16590969

it's also relatively dense, so it's likely packed with metals.
the biggest downer is that it's deep within the solar energy well.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:41:55 UTC No. 16590975

>>16590954
https://planets.ucla.edu/?p=5347

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:44:54 UTC No. 16590979

>>16590975
I'm not sure what water looks like where you're from, but that certainly doesn't look like the water I'm familiar with

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:05:56 UTC No. 16590994

>>16590037
>average annual radiation levels significantly lower than the occupational limit for rad workers
Neat. Have you considered that that is not a preferred metric? That's the metric for HAVING to deal with it by virtue of occupation, not preferred range.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:12:01 UTC No. 16591000

>>16590979
the lighting is a bit different on mercury
spacetime curvature weird too

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:21:42 UTC No. 16591010

>>16590994
if you go off planet, you are accepting that you are going to get exposed to more radiation than a normie

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:28:53 UTC No. 16591018

>>16590037
>Mercury is better than Mars

They're both low-gravity worlds, so it's not happening.
Mercury and Mars might be nice places for industrial installations - Mercury in particular would probably be an excellent place to produce energy, extract resources, manufacture enormous quantities of goods, but the lack of gravity would retard any permanent habitation.
I can't stress this enough: you can protect the human body from almost any environmental danger in space (heat, cold, radiation) with proper equipment and life-support systems, except gravity and a lack of gravity will just slowly cripple and kill you - it might in fact be better for your body to have a little more gravity than not enough.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:59:02 UTC No. 16591032

>>16590954
>>16590975
>>16590979
They have shown that the areas that are permanently shadowed are radar bright and Messenger neutron data shows that those regions are hydrogen dense, it's definitely water

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:00:42 UTC No. 16591033

>>16590994
It's low enough that there is no statistically noticeable increase in cancer or negative health effects, so low in fact that regions on earths natural background radiation is multiples higher than it

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:05:04 UTC No. 16591038

>>16590969
It's only slightly more delta v than proposed missions to land on europa or other jovian moons, but would take a fraction of the time to reach them

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:06:26 UTC No. 16591041

>>16591032
Yep, and there's definitely signs of life on Mars.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:09:15 UTC No. 16591043

>>16591041
It's either water or a material that is incredibly high in hydrogen that would be easy to convert to water anyways

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:14:05 UTC No. 16591046

>>16591018
Mercury surface gravity is 3.7 m/s2, which is well over a third Earth's and about the same as Mars'. Colonists will be fine. (If they have water, air, and food.)

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:24:48 UTC No. 16591054

>>16591046
>>16591018
Yeah there's no evidence to show that lower than earth gravity will be a show stopper, people have lived over a year in ZERO gravity and most of the negative health effects are from zero gravity and likely wouldn't happen under a lower than earth but still modest amount of gravity

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:26:58 UTC No. 16591084

>>16590037
Maybe you are right, but only if we find a good way to go there. Currently it takes years with a lot gravity assists to get a small payload to Mercuries orbit. Maybe if there is a revolution in solar propulsion systems. And refueling the spacecraft in Mecruries orbit to save delta v should be easier than on Mars because of the lack of atmosphere, just use a solar powered spin launch. And maybe getting water is easier too on Mercury since water extraction is a very energy intensive process and Mars has only a small fraction of the solar power that Mercury has. I could also think it's easier to extract water from permanently shadowed craters than from the soil of Mars, icy soil is very hard to work with.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:38:12 UTC No. 16591089

>>16591084
There's nothing preventing us from getting there, we absolutely can brute force it with huge boosters, we dont need to take long convoluted paths from gravity assists we just currently do so for economical reasons to fit within budgets and because it doesn't matter for a probe if it takes 10 years to reach it, a direct Hoffman transfer to mercury would only take 3.5 months with is less than the 8.5 months It takes for a mars transfer.

Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:09:53 UTC No. 16591640

>>16590037
Fusion fuel is prevalent on earth, but the moon is still very interesting with regard to its helium-3 reserves.
It may also function as a future stepping stone into the solar system, as lifting materials and fuel from the moons surface is much easier and cheaper than from earth.
The outer solar system could then do the same thing, but at a much larger scale - the amount of hydrogen we could siphon from the gas giants is practically unlimited.
Then think about the sheer number of different celestial bodies including moons, asteroids and irregular satellites available for scientific study and exploitation and the fact that the delta-v requirements there are much lower. I mean you could travel from moon to moon in weeks with relatively puny spacecraft.
Go even further and the outer planetoids like Pluto and Ceres could be our future spaceport out of the solar system.
Needless to say, the way in, towards the sun, yields little outside of experience.
IMO, humanities goal shouldn't necessarily be to become multiplanetary, the goal should be to become more and more spaceborne. Becoming multiplanetary will be a simple side effect.