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That was a very bad idea, in my opinion. Although, Jovian moons are related to Jupiter, conceptually, colonisation of Jupiter itself sounds like a much crazier idea than its moons - more realistic. I suggest to change it back where it was. -- Anatoli ( talk) 12:05, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
I am not convinced that an article on the uses and colonization of the Jupiter system (with subsections, of course) is a bad idea. It has advantages because it is compact, so travel times are not so bad as for travel between the asteroids and planets further out. The present article is a start in this direction, and although there seems no credible near-term prospect for actual crewed landing (? de-orbiting, or entry are perhaps more appropriate terms), or escape from Jupiter itself even into low orbit, but still, because of its mass and the Oberth effect the planet still may be of significant use. Callisto and Ganymede appear potentially useful, and human outposts a few meters below the surface (for radiation shielding) may not even be out of the question for Io and Europa, if there is ever good reason to land there. It seems to me the more distant outer planets are likely to lag a generation or more behind, if only because of the distances involved. So I would limit it to Jupiter's system for now. The other outer planets will deserve their own separate articles someday anyhow. But also, there could possibly be sub-stellar Jupiter-like objects with large satellites nearer than the closest known stars, and settlement of the Jupiter system might well provide a model for the ways we could utilize those, if any happen to be reachable. This would mainly entail just a name change (and a redirect) for the current article, and we'd have a place to build. Wwheaton ( talk) 07:04, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I undid the merge. Perhaps at some point these articles could be combined into Colonization of the Jupiter system. Wronkiew ( talk) 04:17, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
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That was a very bad idea, in my opinion. Although, Jovian moons are related to Jupiter, conceptually, colonisation of Jupiter itself sounds like a much crazier idea than its moons - more realistic. I suggest to change it back where it was. -- Anatoli ( talk) 12:05, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
I am not convinced that an article on the uses and colonization of the Jupiter system (with subsections, of course) is a bad idea. It has advantages because it is compact, so travel times are not so bad as for travel between the asteroids and planets further out. The present article is a start in this direction, and although there seems no credible near-term prospect for actual crewed landing (? de-orbiting, or entry are perhaps more appropriate terms), or escape from Jupiter itself even into low orbit, but still, because of its mass and the Oberth effect the planet still may be of significant use. Callisto and Ganymede appear potentially useful, and human outposts a few meters below the surface (for radiation shielding) may not even be out of the question for Io and Europa, if there is ever good reason to land there. It seems to me the more distant outer planets are likely to lag a generation or more behind, if only because of the distances involved. So I would limit it to Jupiter's system for now. The other outer planets will deserve their own separate articles someday anyhow. But also, there could possibly be sub-stellar Jupiter-like objects with large satellites nearer than the closest known stars, and settlement of the Jupiter system might well provide a model for the ways we could utilize those, if any happen to be reachable. This would mainly entail just a name change (and a redirect) for the current article, and we'd have a place to build. Wwheaton ( talk) 07:04, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
Okay, I undid the merge. Perhaps at some point these articles could be combined into Colonization of the Jupiter system. Wronkiew ( talk) 04:17, 15 April 2009 (UTC)