Eagle1Division [2011-08-06 02:33:34 +0000 UTC]
I like the power thing with the fist. A lot of these would probably stem from Jovian He3 mining colonies, where all the Gallilean colonies would come from. Then as they get larger, eventually people start living there, and voila'. Callisto is probably the best place, farthest away from Jupiter's deadly radiation, so I don't think any shielding would be needed out there, and there's a LOT of water ice freely available. Water ice, drink it, split the hydrogen and oxygen to breathe it, use that same hydrogen and oxygen to fuel your rockets (which are your only transportation ANYWHERE), use it for radiation shielding, or use the hydrogen to make Deuterium to fuel your fusion powerplants, which are the backbone of everything.
Water, vapor, liquid, or solid, is VERY nice to have!
And Callisto's got a LOT of ice!
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