it was a cheeky suggestion. In any case, despite naysayers, there's too much stuff in space (specially power, advantage positions, and rare materials) to ignore it. The first in the rush to Enceladus would be able to both nuke or kinetic boost any spacecraft or inner planet
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It's plausibly valuable for resources but useless for habitation
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habitation is secondary. Ships for meatbags are a pain, I doubt there will be a torrent of people, but a colony might form around not having to wait for Earth or any other inner planet to fix stuff
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Idk this seems exactly like what AI and robotics would be ideal for
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there's the question of whether we want AI to have the keys of the interplanetary nuke cannon. The first colonizers will most likely be in the moon, not Mars (same problems, less hassle to fix), and it will be scientific, then out of personal ideology I guess
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Simple robotics then. Still not suitable for people
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the challenge is to make it so, the problems are obvious. But since it IS possible and profitable, the question is more of a how and when. Still, I do think that most opportunities can be harnessed with minimal to no people.
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