return the very next day! At a constant acceleration of 2 g’s, over a few thousand kilometers of track, trips to Mars or Mercury would only take a few weeks instead of several months.”
“James, can I suck off the sheik?” Jasmine asked.
He looked up, startled, his teeth glimmering like a vampire. He made eye contact with the other man, then shrugged his shoulders as he continued to bang his fiancee.
“Astronomers have always wanted to put scopes on the Moon. The Moon has no atmosphere to obscure telescopes, and it provides a steady platform since it’s seismically dead. Because the Moon rotates only once every 28 days, it has 28 more days to collect light, meaning it could see 28 times better or farther by focusing on a distant object for 28 times as long. So we want thousands of optical telescopes, all focusing for long periods at specific objects. And because of the light gravity, we could build telescopes five times heavier than the heaviest on Earth.
“Because it lacks an atmosphere, the Moon is much better for infrared, near-infrared, cosmic-ray, x-ray, gamma-ray, radio-wave, and ultraviolet astronomy. We could put scopes in permanently shadowed craters, each studying a narrow range of the infrared spectrum. The constant cold gives infrared scopes better resolution. Interferonomy scopes would work best in the submillimeter spectrum, which doesn’t work well on Earth because of the water vapor in our atmosphere. And very low frequency radio waves are blocked by our ionosphere, so we’re essentially blind at that range of the spectrum. And the only place in the galaxy permanently shielded from our radio waves is the lunar far side, so that is where we must put our radio telescopes.”
Jasmine worked the guy’s robe off, licking her lips. She found it bushier than she liked, but was too horny to waste time trying to find a replacement. Although she wished that hunky Russian sat closer.
“We should maximize interferonomy scopes, where one device combines the light from several telescopes, all focused on one single distant object. The power of a single telescope in resolving detail is proportional to its diameter, while the resolving power of an array of telescopes is proportional to the diameter of the array. In other words, instead of one huge telescope, it’s better to have several smaller telescopes working together. So we want thousands of scopes, organized into hundreds of interferonomy arrays, all computer controlled. Only amateurs still eyeball space anymore. Then we map every planet within 100 light years.
“The best interferonomy arrays operate in the range of X-rays because its short wavelengths allow for shorter baselines, which are more practical than visible light systems. X-ray is the best band for high resolution imaging, and a good lunar X-ray interferometry scope could detect something the size of a car at the center of our galaxy.”
Jasmine grabbed the stranger by the balls and pulled him close so she could get his cock into her mouth. He groaned, surprisingly, a lot like her mother.
“As we excavate the Ganymed asteroid to turn it into a fully functional space port, our small fleet of spaceships are slowly pushing the largest type-M metallic asteroid that crosses our orbit into a Lagrange point sixty degrees behind Earth. We call it The Jackpot because we estimate the value of its precious metals at over $40 trillion. Jupiter has many asteroids that orbit sixty degrees before and behind it, and Mars has one called 1990 MB. Because they are so stable, we hope to fill all five of Earth’s Lagrange points with valuable asteroids.”
Jasmine had never sucked a smelly dick before and felt conflicted about it. On the one hand, it stank like a pussy after a long jog but, on the other, the very stench made her feel that much naughtier.
“Our growing constellation of communications and remote-sensing satellites we call OmniNet. With OmniNet we can dominate Internet access, phone, radio, TV, movies-on-demand, and gaming.
“Imagine super-fast global wireless satellite services that communicate via the whole spectrum: short-range VHF and UHF, long-range HF, CB, AM/FM, SSB, and L-band. The higher the frequency, the greater the content- carrying capacity. Imagine everyone always wired, even in Siberia, the Congo, or Antarctica. Every ship and plane.
Instead of expensive billing software, we’ll restrict it to pre-pay monthly plans and automatic debits that will save us a fortune sending out bills and processing checks. 80 % of customer service calls are billing related, but we will have no unpaid bills and thus no collections. To maximize subscribers and minimizing switching, we will give away the phones, yet charge a $150 cancellation fee.”
The Arab mumbled into his beard as he fucked Jasmine’s face like an animal. James couldn’t help but stare at the smallish dick plowing into his fiancee’s mouth. It both enthralled and repulsed him. When the guy started yelling in Arabic, bucking his hips as he pumped Jasmine with cum, James found himself spurting semen into her other hole. His back actually hurt from pounding her for so long, but it was so worth it.
“Mars will be worth a thousand times more after we terraform it. Mars is relatively close, has a Goldilocks orbit, the right axial tilt to make seasons, an Earth-like day, and literally oceans of water buried under its surface. However, Mars is only half the size of Earth and has only a third of the surface area.
“Mars is too inhospitable for humans as it is. Constant radiation nukes the surface. The temperature extremes between day and night make long distance travel very dangerous. And the talcum powder-like dust will get into your eyes, nose, ears, throat, anus, food, clothes, suits, equipment, and vehicles. Nothing that depends on grease, oils, sealants, gears, or lubricants would last, including our eyes. Our lungs could fill up with the stuff. Even a tiny tear in a suit would kill you on the Martian surface. Your exposed blood would literally boil away.”
Jasmine gargled the mouthful of cum to judge its flavor. It seemed rude to spit it out, so she swallowed, vowing to never suck an Arab prince off again. It tasted too tangy, like when Panda Express pours too much sauce on their orange chicken.
“And we couldn’t grow anything because Mars has no soil. As hydrogen leaked out of the atmosphere into space, the remaining oxygen literally rusted the planet, creating super-oxidant dirt. We need to cover the entire surface with leafy plants and trees to scrub the atmosphere of CO2, but can’t without soil. Because dead dirt covers the surface, we must bury Mars under organics.
“The gravity is too weak to hold hydrogen, which leaks into space, which is why Mars has no liquid surface water. Increasing its mass increases its gravity, which better retains hydrogen. Importing mass also thickens the atmosphere and warms up the freezing planet.
“We want to optimize Mars for human habitation. Millions of people will not move to Mars if every day is a brutal, life-or-death ordeal. We can triple the size of Mars by importing asteroids. The nearby Main Asteroid Belt has over a million asteroids larger than 1 kilometer and 200 larger than 100 kilometers. The farther Kuiper Belt has 70,000 objects larger than 100 kilometers. Each ship could carry dozens of fusion mass drivers to push several asteroids in the right direction.”
James looked down at Jasmine in awe. It was like watching a T-rex in the wild. He never knew how empty his life was without her, so when she pulled his head down, he kissed her.
“Bulking up Mars will solve several other problems, besides burying the ultra-fine dust and dead soil under a few thousand kilometers of asteroid regolith. First, thickening the atmosphere with trillions of cubic meters of gases protects us from deadly cosmic radiation, even while it warms the planet up by retaining the Sun’s heat. Mars now is like Antarctica, except colder, dryer, windier, and the nearest help is 70 million kilometers away.
“The atmospheric pressure is now so low that few plants could live on the surface. Humans need a minimum density of 100 millibars and Mars at ‘sea-level’ only has 6. Greater air pressure means if you cut yourself, you put on a Band-Aid instead of watching in agony as your blood boils away.
“It would also reduce temperature extremes. Temperatures on Mars fluctuate more in a day than on Earth in a year. It can be 60 degrees F in the day and -100 that very night. Also, raising the mean temperature above freezing would melt the millions of square kilometers of permafrost lying under the surface, and create new lakes, rivers, and seas via rainfall, which would also help settle the millions of cubic kilometers of new regolith.”
His head snapped back at the taste of another man’s sperm. He remembered his black teammates tasting so much better. The Arab laughed arrogantly, waving his penis at him like a little boy groping a garden hose. Then a drop fell off the tip and sank into his eye. It hurt so bad that James howled in pain as he fell to the floor in agony.
“Bulking up the atmosphere would also add needed oxygen, while diluting the poisonous carbon dioxide. Mars now only has. 2 % oxygen, and we need several percent. The only way to get that is by direct importation via comets and ice-teroids. While primitive plants can get by without it, advanced plants need about 1 millibar and humans need 120. Afterwards, we could walk around Mars in t-shirts and shorts while breathing through a simple CO2 filter mask without hauling around heavy oxygen tanks.
“The solution to all of these challenges is bulking up the planet as much as possible, as fast as possible.
