[WhiskeyX]

Many years ago it was noted that mining multilevel galleries with ceilings about 1,500 to 2,000 feet high inside Ceres and filled with an Earth like atmosphere would create an environment with an apparent blue skies and enough agricultural land to equal all of the arable land on the Earth. After giving Ceres the necessary spin, the centrifugal force would simulate an Earth like gravity.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[bimboeruption]

Beautiful!

[kidd]

Pretty cool.

Seems like most of the large craters have Hawaiian names

[alexander_busek]

After giving Ceres the necessary spin, the centrifugal force would simulate an Earth like gravity.

The centripetal forces would tear Ceres apart - unless you plastered the entire outer surface of the asteroid with some material (don't know if carbon nanotubules would be sufficiently strong) having an unbelievably high tensile strength. Actually, the floor of each "gallery" would probably have to be reinforced in such a manner. I would probably be advisable to hollow out the asteroid. Further, the artificial gravity would prevail only in a narrow belt around the equator. And say "good-bye" to the putative 100-km-thick ocean of H2O which some scientists speculate might be buried under the Cererean surface!

Regards,