A Finnish scientist Dr. Pekka Janhunen has made a screeching claim that by 2026 humans could live on giant spheres floating in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. According to the New York Post report, Janhunen has also predicted that millions of people could inhabit the megacity in space within the next 15 years. Janhunen is an astrophysicist at the Finnish Metrological Institute in Helsinki, and he even explained the blueprint for floating “megasatellites” in a research article published this month.
The Finnish scientist said the satellites would be around the dwarf planet Ceres, which is nearly 325 million miles from Earth, adding that “the motivation is to have an artificial gravity settlement that grows beyond its habitat. makes the earth possible. ” Most assumptions regarding future human settlements revolve around the Moon or Mars because of its proximity to Earth. Janhunen’s proposal, however, looks slightly different from the usual approach.
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How could it be possible?
The Finnish scientist has predicted a disk-shaped habitat with thousands of cylindrical structures, each of which would house more than 50,000 people. Furthermore, these pods would be coupled to powerful magnets and generate artificial gravity by rotating steadily. According to Janhunen, in 15 years’ time, residents will be able to mine resources from Ceres 600 miles below the settlement and drag them back up using “space elevators.” He went on to write, “Lifting the materials from Ceres is energetically cheap compared to processing them into habitats when using a space elevator.”
“Because Ceres has low gravity and relatively fast rotation, the space elevator is feasible,” he added before noting that Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and also the best settlement destination aside from Earth, due to its nitrogenous atmosphere. .
This would allow humans to create more Earth-like conditions than the carbon dioxide-rich environment on Mars, according to the Finnish scientist. However, he also acknowledged that a facility in Ceres does not rule out threats from asteroids or radiation from space. For example, he proposes cylindrical mirrors around the ‘megasatellites’ to protect against the bombings.
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