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The simple solution is hydrogen. The hard part is figuring out how to get the hydrogen.
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Jupiter is ~86% Hydrogen.  Voyager I took only 2 years to reach Jupiter so a mining operation in two decades isn't really out of the picture if it was a priority.  |
Whats the problem? most of the Earths surface is also Hydrogen so why would you want to go to Jupiter? Might be a cool place to visit, but doubt I want to get my gas from there when we have more than we know what to do with right here, and it would be a hell of a lot cheaper to refine it here than send spacecrafts for it.
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But Jupiter is 317.8 times the mass of Earth (that should be sufficient to supply the current population of Earth till the Sun dies or close to it), it has 63 moons to colonize- the four Galilean Moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) are about equivalent to our moon, our Moon is about the size of the United States so how much industry could be built there and take advantage of the low gravity? |
I'm thinking from a cost to gather perspective. When the technology to travel to Jupiter and back becomes economical, then by all means!
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