A Finnish scientist, dr. Pekka Janhunen, made a kinky 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 also predicted that millions of people could inhabit the vast expanse of space within the next 15 years. Janhunen is an astrophysicist at the Finnish Metrological Institute in Helsinki and he even outlined 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 located almost 325 million miles from Earth, adding that ‘the motivation is to have a settlement with artificial gravity growing outside the living area of the make the earth possible. ‘ Most assumptions about future human settlements revolve around the moon or Mars due to the proximity of the earth. However, Janhunen’s proposal seems a little further than the usual approach.
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How would that be possible?
The Finnish scientist predicted a disk-shaped habitat with thousands of cylindrical structures, each of which would house more than 50,000 people. Furthermore, these pods will be coupled to powerful magnets and generate artificial gravity by gradually rotating. The inhabitants, according to Janhunen, will exploit resources from Ceres 600 miles below the settlement 15 years from now and retrieve it using ‘spacecraft’. He further writes: “The removal of Ceres’ material is energetically inexpensive compared to its processing into habitats when a spacecraft is used.”
“Because Ceres has low gravity and rotates relatively quickly, the spacecraft is achievable,” he added before noting that Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and is also the best destination for extraterrestrial settlements due to its nitrogen-rich atmosphere. . .
According to the Finnish scientist, this will enable humans to create more Earth-like conditions than the carbon dioxide-rich environment found in Mars. However, he also acknowledged that a settlement in Ceres does not rule out the threats of asteroids or radiation from space. In order to represent cylindrical mirrors around the ‘megasatellites’ to protect against the bombardments.
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