How can we colonize space? ?
Interesting question. We could colonize the moon using habitats powered by solar energy or nuclear-electric generators, but they would most likely be a long way from self sustaining unless they had a large industrial base to supply the complex parts needed to survive the harsh environment of the Moon. Mars would have similar problems unless terraformed. Technically we might be able to start terraforming Mars now. By launching rockets full of super green house gasses at Mars and letting them crash on the surface we can warm Mars by several degrees much the same way we are warming Earth now via CO2. We could also help the warming process along by diverting large asteroids at the Martian poles to impart huge amounts of kinetic energy melting a lot of the frozen CO2. Over time we might be able to send genetically altered algae originally from in the arctics. They would flourish in the CO2 rich atmosphere and would have no competition. Photosyntheses is actually a very inefficient process o
