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There is a place in our solar system, beyond Earth, where, if you could get there, you could live in an inflated plastic building and go outside without a pressure suit.
You could go boating there. You could watch a rain storm. You could even strap wings on your back and fly.
Titan, a moon of Saturn, is by far the best place in the solar system for human beings to live other than the Earth. We think it’s the only practical place for a permanent human space colony, as we argue in our new book,
Beyond Earth: Our Path to a New Home in the Planets.
We are a planetary scientist (Hendrix) and an environmental writer (Wohlforth). We’ve considered the growing body of research on Titan and the needs of human beings in any home. Our book examines the reasons why we would build a space colony, considering our own planet’s history and prospects...