Planetary Terraforming Strategies (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Colonizing the Galaxy - Part 2
Abundant cheap energy offers some impressive avenues for discussing interstellar colonization. The arrival of a colony fleet around a distant star strongly implies they've not got a problem generating lots of energy when they want to. Once you start mining up the local asteroids and moons, which likely relies on advanced automation to help build and run the machines your colonists use for this, you can start building the shells for rotating habitats. They then become as nurseries for you to bring in organisms from as your terraforming of that planet progresses. In all probability they've got all of the above or wouldn't be colonizing space at all.
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