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FINALCOUNTDOWN99 t1_j4ghm1q wrote

A base on Europa or Enceladus built under the ice. There are some mission concepts that use nuclear reactors to gradually melt ice underneath the spacecraft (which freezes above the craft) and the craft will gradually descend closer to the hypothesized subsurface ocean. I think it would be really hard to send a signal through several miles of ice, but as far as a colony goes, there aren't really any other power sources than what you bring with you, so the colony would kind of be screwed when their uranium ran out.

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StoykoYovchev OP t1_j4gk44f wrote

Yeah, but I'll be concerned for the colonists. That low gravity there is really bugging me.

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Arlort t1_j4gm96f wrote

If it's anyway fiction you could assume nuclear fusion instead of fission and to use hydrogen from the ice itself

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