[stanne]

Colonize Mercury!?

So we can get away from the invasion?

So much easier to build the Wall. The Trump Wall

[Doogle]

..ya start by dumbing it down. First you build an Edsel, than a Pinto,than......oh you meant the planet

[citizen]

Read the Mars Red-Green-Blue trilogy. The final book proposes how to survive on Mercury.

[stars & stripes forever]

We should be more concerned about colonizing our eternal home.

http://www.patburt.com/

[BeauBo]

There’s gold in them that lava tubes!

[lee martell]

The expense would be incredibly high. There would have to be an awfully good promise of a payoff. Maybe hidden minerals.
The article indicates the possibility of water, but then we return to the expense issue. Transportation in what form? It would almost have to be a solid form until reaching our lower atmosphere.

We may be better off first spending money to colonize the moon. At least we (one presumes) have been there before.
Google, the maker of Tesla, who’s name escapes me, The founder of Virgin Records, Zuckerberg and a few select others may be interested in such a venture.

[dfwgator]

Earth First!

We’ll mine the other planets later.

[JoeProBono]

[BeauBo]

Mercury might be a good spot for solar panels...

Maybe a competitive advantage for some high heat processing jobs.

[VanDeKoik]

The Moon is a better target.

It has plenty of water too. Closer to Earth, as well as being in the habitable zone making it far easier to terraform under a dome, than Mercury where you are going to be living in the dark all of the time.

[TexasCruzin]

We Don’t.

[Jonty30]

I think Venus would be s better candidate.

[GreenHornet]

I think we should rent first and see how we like it.

[Ingtar]

Land at night :)

[Fiddlstix]

Hmmmmmm........
What about those solar flares?

[Fiddlstix]

Hmmmmmm........
What about those solar flares?

[AdvisorB]

Bump.

[Dogbert41]

I’m curious. But I am also not a scientist, let alone rocket scientist. How hard would it be to leave a Mercurial orbit and return to earth? Off the top of my head, it’d seem like the fuel requirement would be “astronomical”. Therefore, any future colony would be one-way trips, never anything else.

[EvilCapitalist]

Colonizing Mercury would be better than colonizing Uranus.

[Oscar in Batangas]

Funny, my best friend in grade school was awarded an “Ask Andy” set of encyclopedias in the early ‘60s for the question “Can Mercury Sustain Life?

I guess he was just about 55 years ahead of his time.

Ask Andy was a syndicated column in lots of newspapers at the time.