Populate lots of places, yes.

Planets are actually the worst places to start @Clive if we want to expand into space. I'm all about O'Neill cylinders.

Just fill up the solar system with trillions of people living in giant tubes. Much easier than terraforming.

Every region of the world will inevitably be unique. In Europe, a European is a fair-skinned Indo-European-speaking Christian, with limited though clearly delineated exeptions.

Is that like a Dyson sphere?

No. It's a cylindrical habitat miles across that rotates to provide artificial gravity.

"Fair-skinned" by global standards. I'm no anti-Med

So like a Dyson sphere

Although enough of them around the Sun would make a Dyson swarm

Oooo are we talkiing about superstructures now?

No, a Dyson sphere encapsulates a whole star.

thats fairly broad if we're trying to preserve heritage, no?

it seems like an arbitrary level to stop at

A single O'Neill cylinder is waaaaaaay tinier.

What's an O'Neill Cylinder?

The whole idea of a Dyson sphere as a single solid shell is unattainable anyway, we dont have materials that could do that.

Imagine living on the inside of a soda can in space.

oohh okay I've seen some of this

The can is about 20 miles across and it spins on its axis, so there is full gravity at ground level.

It can be pretty much as long as you want, but the diameter is limited by the strength of the shell material. Steel can do about 20 miles.

The 'sky' would be the land on the far side of the can, unless you put a smaller tube inside the bigger one to project a sky onto. But my guess is people would get used to the view pretty quickly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4QfHdcMeEc

Anyway it's much, much easier to control the conditions inside one of those than to terraform a whole planet.

Wow I really did break him, this is just getting pathetic now.

JIDF without a doubt

Plus because the gravity is produced by the spin, not by mass, you can make vastly more land area than a planet.

Like billions of times more if I remember correctly.

I gotta be honest, I'm a Christian but I don't believe it's abiblical to think we can expand off of the planet

So the solar system could house trillions of people.

And I used to be a full-blown Kurzweillian

I don't see why it would be.

Takes 'be fruitful and mutliply' and runs with it.

heh

I figure if God has an issue with us expanding off Earth he'll let us know somehow.

Prolly

@Goose what is the basis for picking European as a category, over smaller/larger categories?

I think it's a testament to the more beautiful aspects of our nature that we want to reach

Well, ethnolinguistics and religion, for one

But I believe it's incumbent on Christendom to Christianize all of the Indo-European lands.

Aight I'm out for the night, peace lads. Goose, thank you for sharing your opinions. I'll think on them.

gn yo