What If We Moved to Ceres?

Settling on the Moon or Mars may be all the buzz. But how about we all move to an icy dwarf planet in the middle of the Solar System? To Ceres. What would make this a good candidate for a space settlement? What kind of orbiting habitat could we build there? And what would it be like to settle on the surface of this icy world?

00:00 Settling on a Moon
00:40 Moving to Ceres
02:25 O'Neil Cylinder
04:41 Living in a Space Habitat

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[indredcold]

I think we should have built settlements on every available planet, along with orbiting launch stations for further travel.
"But that's a story, for another Whatif." Lmao 😂

[Fylnnn]

I love how his thumbnail is pretty much accurate, the scale of the city to ceres

[vladimirenlow]

All the time, effort, and money necessary to establish a habitat in outer space makes cleaning up the rock we're already on look easy by comparison.

[Jay-lnoc]

"Yes, let's build Cooper's Station."

[Sebe_r]

I mainly know about Ceres and the other stuff you're talking about in this video because of "The Expanse" lol

[just-justice-here]

What really amuse me is why all the stress when we can save our own planet

[bilalprob]

This. Channel has taught me 2170x as much knowledge than My science class

[anshudipkarn]

Imagine you came down the 1000 floor elevator and then you realized you forgot your damn keys in your room

[NeonEnigmaJC]

Not to forget; to achieve the point of extracting materials from ceres, or making it a livable environment, we have to be at least type 1 civilization or even nearing type 2. By then, the 1024 km elevator will be obsoleted

[michaellutes]

What if we could send Ceres crashing into Mars? Would that bring enough water for new life? And would it add enough mass to make Mars more like earth? And would it be enough to jumpstart Mars’ inner core to generate a magnetosphere so we could terraform Mars?

[sunitasingh-bboy]

Actual fact: coming last is harder than coming first in a video

[_Ambition]

What if the earth spun north to south instead of east to west ?

[cxvd]

“The only dwarf planet in the solar system”

Pluto: I have been forgotten

[slavaukraine]

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[kaja]

What about “What If Symbiotes Were Real?” I mean the ones from Spider-Man

[brentonmcclean]

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[Smartest_]

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and is classified as a dwarf planet. It is located between Mars and Jupiter and is approximately 590 million kilometers away from Earth.
If humans were to move to Ceres, they would face many challenges. The most significant of which would be the lack of a protective atmosphere, resulting in dangerous levels of radiation and temperature swings. Additionally, Ceres has no liquid water and no signs of life, which means that human settlers would have to rely on resources brought from Earth or mined from Ceres itself, which is not known if it has the resources needed for human survival.
Another challenge would be the distance from Earth, making communication and travel very difficult, and the resources needed to make such a trip would be tremendous.
It would be a great challenge to establish a human settlement on Ceres and would require significant advances in technology and engineering.

[linfan]

Appreciated the knowledge! Thanks alot,

[vee]

Sounds like somebody has been watching The Expanse lol

[Messey_Mess]

Video idea: What if the US solved all its problems how would it influence the world?