Have You Ever Considered That We May Not Need Planets at All?

What if planets are actually one of the least efficient places for an advanced civilization to live? In this episode of Entropy Rising, we explore why humanity may eventually move away from planets and build massive space habitats instead. We compare terraforming Mars or Venus with constructing O’Neill cylinders and other artificial habitats, and look at how a mature space economy could use asteroids, Mercury, and other planetary resources to create vastly more living space than planets provi...