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I often wonder why people obsess about colonizing planets (I am just the same, even though I know better). After all, once you learned to live off planet, why would you ever want to go back?
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No matter what, you will need an energy source, which will be a star.
These stars may very well NOT have planets. You could still do all sorts of neat space colonizing things with them, and sunlike stars would be the most likely to have the resources we need (such as iron, carbon, etc).
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If anyone wants to seriously colonise planets, I suggest they read Encounter With Tiber. Lots of salient points about terraforming and suriving in a already-existing ecosystem. JK
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I would like to say that one of the better books about intra-solar colonization is probably Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson. It and its two sequels, Green Mars and Blue Mars chronicle the socio-political environment through the time of Mars' colonization, as well as one of the more detailed scientific explanations of the process that exists in the fictional world.
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