Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species

[BBadger]

Several space elevators lead to a giant "circumterran" space station that encircles Earth at geostationary altitude. The analogy with a wheel is evident: the space station itself is the wheel rim, Earth is the axle, and the six equidistant space elevators the spokes.
Arthur’s idea was that Earth become a garden paradise, with only a minimal population to maintain it. The rest of the human population of Earth would be living in the “wheel” and take vacations on planet earth.

The funny thing about that is that I get to live on this vacation-planet my entire life! Why get stuck on some damn artificial floating ring with the only scenery being the ring itself, the great black expanse of space (that I can see from Earth too!), and a view down of the paradise we're enjoying right now. How would that even be an improvement? To desire that kind of living is demonstrating how out of touch we are as a species with the planet we're living on.

Lots of research happening with nano tech, and excluding the fantasy of Arthur Clarke, we simply have to stop poking holes in our delicate atmosphere with all these rockets that increase by numbers every year, and a space tether can haul everything up there and make rockets obsolete.

Space elevators would definitely be nice for cheaper lift tech, and maybe to make space tourism cheaper.

[Captain Goddammit]

Well in a ride that long you could certainly get away with a lot more misbehavior in the elevator than we can now... so that's an advancement.

[Traveller in Time]

They have just dropped another camera on Mars.
Included is a weather station to measure the dust-density.

[Token]

So if we build a ring circumventing the equator, would it defy gravity and be locked there for good?

Could we also spin the ring slower/faster and use the magnetosphere as a giant generator?

Too bad the earth wobbles and the moon is flying away.

[John Done]

I know that there can be other civilizations, there should be there. But I don't think that it is real to make humans a multi-planetary species. Well, there are lots of function movies tell us that it is possible, but they also that time travel is possible too. Maybe in the future, there will be an opportunity to grow the people from a bottle and select the needed set of parameters suitable for some planets.

[Ugly Dougly]

So if we build a ring circumventing the equator, would it defy gravity and be locked there for good?

Could we also spin the ring slower/faster and use the magnetosphere as a giant generator?

Too bad the earth wobbles and the moon is flying away.

There have been proposals to use the Earth's spin to generate electricity. It has enormous momentum of course, and there's no technology we can come up with that would significantly alter the spin.

[Ugly Dougly]

We don't even have a "colony" on Antarctica.