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by plutomeetsyou 470 days ago
Might as well start colonizing Jupiter's moons, we can start with Ganymede, IO, then Callisto - the official name for it can be "The Rim".
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oooooh.... this does sound good. But not enough far away from the Sun since we would need a maximum of time once the Sun inflation started in order to exit the solar system.

But the real question is to know if the kuiper belt has enough interesting materials to build what's required to leave the solar system which we could easily mine.

Just remember the warning about "Europa"...
Huh? Warning about what? Aliens?
“ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA.

ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.

USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM IN PEACE.”

― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38EDhpxzn2g (message at the end)

OMG... And I read ALL Arthur C. Clarke books... but decades ago... huhu...