A Finnish scientist, Dra. Pekka Janhunen, claimed that humans could live on giant twists floating in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter in 2026. According to the New York Post report, Janhunen also predicted that millions of people could inhabit the megacity on Earth. space in the next 15 years. Janhunen is an astrophysicist at the Finnish Metrological Institute in Helsinki and even set out the plan for floating “megasatellites” in a research paper published this month.
The Finnish scientist said the satellites would be around the dwarf planet Ceres, which is nearly 325 million miles from Earth, and added that “the motivation is to have a settlement with artificial gravity that allows more growth. beyond the habitable zone of the Earth “. Most assumptions about future human settlements revolve around the Moon or Mars due to their proximity to Earth. However, Janhunen’s proposal seems a little different from the usual approach.
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How would that be possible?
The Finnish scientist has predicted a disk-shaped habitat with thousands of cylindrical structures, each of which would house more than 50,000 people. In addition, these pods would be tied to powerful magnets and generate artificial gravity by constantly rotating. According to Janhunen, residents, in 15 years, will be able to exploit Ceres resources 600 miles below the settlement and transport them with “space elevators”. He also wrote, “Lifting Ceres materials is energetically cheap compared to processing them in habitats if a space elevator is used.”
“Because Ceres has little gravity and rotates relatively fast, the space elevator is doable,” he added before stressing that Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and is also the best destination for separate settlements. of the Earth due to its nitrogen-rich atmosphere. .
This, according to the Finnish scientist, would allow humans to create more Earth-like conditions than the carbon-rich environment on Mars. However, he also acknowledged that a Ceres establishment does not rule out threats posed by asteroids or space radiation. Thus, proposing cylindrical mirrors around the “megasatellites” to protect themselves from bombing.
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