Achinthya Nanayakkara (Official)

  Commercialization and Rise of a phase-III Venusian Colony Now, how exactly are we to give rise to a phase-III Venusian colony? Well, for a colony to be self-sufficient it must be self sufficient via exports to the Earth. We’ve achieved the self-sufficiency part, now we have to work on the export of material back to the Earth. But, interplanetary trade is impractically expensive; the interplanetary ocean that divides Venus from Earth, where even when the launch window opens at low tide, the distances are simply just too large for practical trade. We’d have to rely on something better: We must either get governments or even investors, to invest in the mass manufacturing industries in Venus for undreamed-of economic returns, or for even governmental organizations or business lords to have their own joint-ventures with the colonists. As for governmental organizations involving in colonization, we have our own historic example: the VOC (Dutch East-India Company) which ought to b...

 (Outdated) The Phases of Colonization The colonization of an alien world, or technically anything, could be divided into three common stages; those three stages are universally applicable to all potential colonies, which are as follows [a] : The first phase is based on exploration, which would include the cartography of environment and looking for resources. If North America were to be taken as our example; it would be the arrival of Columbus and his fleet, and some of the following missions. They set up camps, mapped the area, and went looking for resources. But they didn’t stay there for long; after a while, they abandoned camp and went back to their motherland [a] . But they returned to establish true colonies. They set-up outposts and founded settlements, but they were still very dependent on their countries-of-origin; this is the context of a phase-II colonies i.e. ‘ sufficient via imports from place-of-origin ’. Some of these colonies will fail, but the ones that do su...