Hot? yes, but apparently cooler than England right now as long as you're a meter below ground in a ring around the poles (how's a constant 21c/70f sound)
this guy's website is so weird but I love the novelty of the idea and he portrays a plausible scenario for it being ultimately more habitable than Mars
I mean the argument about asteroid strikes and stuff does have some merit, it would kinda suck if we managed to avert climate apocalypse only to be deleted from existence by a 10km wide asteroid, but idk maybe blowing up asteroids is more feasible than mercury base would be
yeah, the infrastructure that interplanetary colonisation requires would also be enough to detect + deflect large asteroids, and would also be vulnerable to the far more common big solar flare wiping out all precision electronics, both in space and in inevitably tech-dependant colonies
There are stellar phenomena that could burn the atmospheres off of every planet in the solar system at the same time and we wouldn't know until the trees caught on fire. It is really best not to think about how fragile this planet is.
yeah gamma ray bursts and stuff
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At least this idea is slightly less naive in that there's no pretense of the colony ever having economic value to earth :yea: