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Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by kitsunesoba on Saturday October 22, 2016 @12:50AM (#12767244)
Ceres isn't well-suited for long term human habitation due to extremely low gravity and a surface environment much more hostile than that of Mars. You'd either have to have a sizable rotating space station nearby or do everything with remotely controlled and/or autonomous robots, and in the case of the latter you'd be much better building the robots and/or space station on Mars and launching from there than trying to get all of that out of Earth's gravity well.
Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by narag on Saturday October 22, 2016 @09:38PM (#12771416)
I took for granted that you would not use surface. The rotating station can be built inside a cave. The main advantage over orbiting is mining.

In other words, I believe that Mars' appeal is a mirage. Musk and company are seeing it as another Earth where people can live like here, with a little terraforming.

I think it would be much more difficult. Of course I could be wrong, or I could be right but, even then, Musk could be modern Columbus.

Re:Colonizing Mars: A Critique of the SpaceX Interplanetary ... by ajmurmann on Saturday October 22, 2016 @02:01AM (#12767455)
In the Expanse series they solved Ceres' gravitation issue by speeding up rotation and walking on "the being" of their tunnels.