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Czcibor
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Assumptions:
-more or less contemporary technology
-virgin planet which is glared by lustful humans ;)
-habitable (oxygen, reasonable temperature)
-no requirement for 100% certainty, reasonable guess is OK (the point is to find quite good place for colony very soon, not a perfect one in a few years)
The question is how to check it and what are the possible risk of errors.
Challenge:
-not much time, the colonist are on the way
-do it with limited resources (satellite / aerial photos - OK, deep drilling - would be a challenge)
1) Landscape, rivers for transport - seems trivial, the only trap that I see are ephemeric rivers/lakes, seasonal flooding
2) Agricultural / forests - seems and fast OK (risk of poisonous plants, unstable climate)
3) Earthquakes - by checking active volcanos and marking on map active zones (but I'm not convinced about this idea)
4) Natural resources, fast idea that I can think of:
-tracing magnetic anomalies to find big iron ore deposits
-background radiation to look for fissile fuels
-any quick way of finding deposits, except of course landing there and checking surface?
-more or less contemporary technology
-virgin planet which is glared by lustful humans ;)
-habitable (oxygen, reasonable temperature)
-no requirement for 100% certainty, reasonable guess is OK (the point is to find quite good place for colony very soon, not a perfect one in a few years)
The question is how to check it and what are the possible risk of errors.
Challenge:
-not much time, the colonist are on the way
-do it with limited resources (satellite / aerial photos - OK, deep drilling - would be a challenge)
1) Landscape, rivers for transport - seems trivial, the only trap that I see are ephemeric rivers/lakes, seasonal flooding
2) Agricultural / forests - seems and fast OK (risk of poisonous plants, unstable climate)
3) Earthquakes - by checking active volcanos and marking on map active zones (but I'm not convinced about this idea)
4) Natural resources, fast idea that I can think of:
-tracing magnetic anomalies to find big iron ore deposits
-background radiation to look for fissile fuels
-any quick way of finding deposits, except of course landing there and checking surface?