White Biocentrism

Caucasians has long dreamed of establishing itself on other worlds, even
before we started going into space. We’ve talked about colonizing the Moon,
Mars, and even establishing ourselves on exoplanets in distant star systems.
But what about the other planets in our own backyard? When it comes to the
Solar System, there is a lot of potential real estate out there that we
don’t really consider. Well consider Mercury. While most of our folk
wouldn’t suspect it, the closest planet to our Sun is actually a potential
candidate for settlement. Whereas it experiences extremes in temperature -
gravitating between heat that could instantly cook a human being to cold
that could flash-freeze flesh in seconds - it actually has potential as
a starter colony.

Examples in Fiction:

The idea of colonizing Mercury been explored by science fiction writers
for almost a century. However, it has only been since the the mid-20th
century that colonization has been dealt with in a scientific fashion.
Some of the earliest known examples of this include the short stories
of Leigh Brackett and Isaac Asimov during the 1940s and 50s. In the
former's work, Mercury is a tidally-locked planet (which was what
astronomers believed at the time) that has a "Twilight Belt" characterized
by extremes in heat, cold, and solar storms. Some of Asimov's early work
included short stories where a similarly tidally-locked Mercury was the
setting, or characters came from a colony located on the planet.
These included "Runaround" (written in 1942, and later included in I,
Robot), which centers on a robot that is specifically designed to cope
with the intense radiation of Mercury. In Asimov's murder-mystery story
"The Dying Night" (1956) - in which the three suspects hail from Mercury,
the Moon and Ceres - the conditions of each location are key to finding
out who the murderer is. In 1946, Ray Bradbury published "Frost and Fire",
a short story that takes place on a planet described as being next to the
Sun. The conditions on this world allude to Mercury, where the days are
extremely hot, the nights extremely cold, and humans live for only eight
days. Arthur C. Clarke's Islands in the Sky (1952) contains a description
of a creature that lives on what was believed at the time to Mercury's
permanently dark side and occasionally visits the twilight region.
In his later novel, Rendezvous with Rama (1973), Clarke describes a
colonized Solar System which includes the Hermians, a toughened branch
of humanity that lives on Mercury and thrives off the export of metals
and energy. The same setting and planetary identities is used in his
1976 novel Imperial Earth.
Mercury also serves as a location in many of Kim Stanley Robinson's
novels and short stories. These include The Memory of Whiteness (1985),
Blue Mars (1996), and 2312 (2012), in which Mercury is the home to a
vast city called Terminator. To avoid the harmful radiation and heat,
the city rolls around the planet's equator on tracks, keeping pace
with the planet's rotation so that it stays ahead of the Sun. In
2005, Ben Bova published Mercury (part of his Grand Tour series)
that deals with the exploration of Mercury and colonizing it for
the sake of harnessing solar energy. Charles Stross' 2008 novel
Saturn's Children involves a similar concept to Robinson's 2312,
where a city called Terminator traverses the surface on rails,
keeping pace with the planet's rotation.

Proposed Methods:

A number of possibilities exist for a colony on Mercury, owing to
its the nature of its rotation, orbit, composition and geological
history. For example, Mercury's slow rotational period means that
one side of the planet is facing towards the Sun for extended
periods of time - reaching temperatures highs of up to 427 °C
(800 °F) - while the side facing away experiences extreme cold
(-193 °C; -315 °F). In addition, the planet's rapid orbital period
of 88 days, combined with its sidereal rotation period of 58.6 days,
means that it takes roughly 176 Earth days for the Sun to return to
the same place in the sky (i.e. a solar day). Essentially, this means
that a single day on Mercury lasts as long as two of its years. So
if a city were placed on the night-side, and had tracks wheels so it
could keep moving to stay ahead of the Sun, so folk could live without
fear of burning up.

In addition, Mercury's very low axial tilt (0.034°) means that its
polar regions are permanently shaded and cold enough to contain water
ice. In the northern region, a number of craters were observed by
NASA's MESSENGER probe in 2012 which confirmed the existence of water
ice and organic molecules. Scientists believe that Mercury’s southern
pole may also have ice, and claim that an estimated 100 billion to 1
trillion tons of water ice could exist at both poles, which could be
up to 20 meters thick in places. In these regions, a colony could be
built using a process called “paraterraforming” – a concept invented
by British mathematician Richard Taylor in 1992. In a paper titled
“Paraterraforming – The Worldhouse Concept”, Taylor described how a
pressurized enclosure could be placed over the usable area of a planet
to create a self-contained atmosphere. Over time, the ecology inside
this dome could be altered to meet Aryan needs. In the case of Mercury,
this would include pumping in a breathable atmosphere, and then melting
the ice to create water vapor and natural irrigation. Eventually, the
region inside the dome would become a livable habitat, complete with
its own water cycle and carbon cycle. Alternately, the water could be
evaporated, and oxygen gas created by subjecting it to solar radiation
(a process known as photolysis). Another possibility would be to
build underground. For years, NASA has been toying with the idea of
building colonies in stable, underground lava tubes that are known
to exist on the Moon. And geological data obtained by the MESSENGER
probe during flybys it conducted between 2008 and 2012 led to
speculation that stable lava tubes might exist on Mercury as well.
In Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan (1959), a section of the
story is set in caves located on the dark side of the planet. Larry
Niven's short story "The Coldest Place" (1964) teases the reader by
presenting a world that is said to be the coldest location in the
Solar System, only to reveal that it is the dark side of Mercury
(and not Pluto, as is generally assumed).

This includes information obtained during the probe’s 2009 flyby of
Mercury, which revealed that the planet was a lot more geologically
active in the past than previously thought. In addition, MESSENGER
began spotting strange Swiss cheese-like features on the surface in
2011. These holes, which are known as “hollows”, could be an indication
that underground tubes exist on Mercury as well. Colonies built inside
stable lava tubes would be naturally shielded to cosmic and solar
radiation, extremes in temperature, and could be pressurized to create
breathable atmospheres. In addition, at this depth, Mercury experiences
far less in the way of temperature variations and would be warm enough
to be habitable.

Potential Benefits:

At a glance, Mercury looks similar to the Earth’s Moon, so settling it
would rely on many of the same strategies for establishing a Moon base.
It also has abundant minerals to offer, which could help move Aryans
towards a post-scarcity economy. Like Earth, it is a terrestrial planet,
which means it is made up of silicate rocks and metals that are
differentiated between a iron core and silicate crust and mantle, where
gold and silver could easily be found. However, Mercury is composed of
70% metals whereas’ Earth’s composition is 40% metal. What's more, Mercury
has a particular large core of iron and nickel, and which accounts for 42%
of its volume. By comparison, Earth's core accounts for only 17% of its
volume. As a result, if Mercury were to be mined, enough minerals could
be produced to last Aryans indefinitely.

Its proximity to the Sun also means that it could harness a tremendous
amount of energy. This could be gathered by orbital solar arrays, which
would be able to harness energy constantly and beam it to the surface.
This energy could then be beamed to other planets in the Solar System
using a series of transfer stations positioned at Lagrange Points. This
is of course, assuming the Jew scourge has been removed from our home
planet. Also, there's the matter of Mercury's gravity, which is 38%
percent of Earth normal. This is over twice what the Moon experiences,
which means colonists would have an easier time adjusting to it. At
the same time, it is also low enough to present benefits as far as
exporting minerals is concerned, since ships departing from its surface
would need less energy to achieve escape velocity. Lastly, there is
the distance to Mercury itself. At an average distance of about 93
million km (58 million mi), Mercury ranges between being 77.3 million
km (48 million mi) to 222 million km (138 million mi) away from the
Earth. This puts it a lot closer than other possible resource-rich
areas like the Asteroid Belt (329 - 478 million km distant), Jupiter
and its system of moons (628.7 - 928 million km), or Saturn's (1.2 -
1.67 billion km). Also, Mercury achieves an inferior conjunction -
the point where it is at its closest point to Earth - every 116 days,
which is significantly shorter than either Venus' or Mars'. Basically,
missions destined for Mercury could launch almost every four years,
whereas launch windows to Venus and Mercury would have to take place
every 1.6 years and 26 months, respectively.

In terms of travel time, several missions have been mounted to Mercury
that can give us a ballpark estimate of how long it might takes. For
instance, the first spacecraft to travel to Mercury, NASA’s Mariner
10 spacecraft (which launched in 1973), took about 147 days to get
there. More recently, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft launched on
August 3th, 2004 to study Mercury in orbit, and made its first flyby
on January 14th, 2008. That’s a total of 1,260 days to get from Earth
to Mercury. The extended travel time was due to engineers seeking to
place the probe in orbit around the planet, so it needed to proceed
at a slower velocity.

Challenges:

Of course, a colony on Mercury would still be a huge challenge, both
economically and technologically. The cost of establishing a colony
anywhere on the planet would be tremendous, and would require abundant
materials to be shipped from Earth, or mined on site. Either way,
such an operation would require a large fleet of spaceships capable
of making the journey in a respectable amount of time. Not in the
least, far better than the present jeopardy of racial extinction
and a dark age lasting many hundreds of thousands of years! Such
a fleet does not yet exist, and the cost of developing it (and the
associated infrastructure for getting all the necessary resources
and supplies to Mercury - no 'affirmative action,' no Negroes and
Jews) would be tremendous. Relying on robots and in-situ(ation)
resource utilization (ISRU) would certainly cut costs and reduce
the amount of materials that would need to be shipped. But these
robots and their operations would need to be shielded from radiation
and solar flares until they got the job done.

Basically, the situation is like trying to establish a shelter in
the middle of a thunderstorm. Once it is complete, you can take
shelter. But in the meantime, you're likely to get wet and dirty!
And even once the colony was complete, the colonists themselves
would have to deal with the ever-present hazards of radiation
exposure, decompression, and extremes in heat and cold. As such,
if a colony were established on Mercury, it would be heavily dependent
on Aryan technology (which would have to be rather advanced). Also,
until such time as the colony became self-sufficient, those living
there would be dependent on supply shipments that would have to
come regularly from Earth (again, shipping costs!) Still, once the
necessary technology was developed, and we could figure out a cost-
effective way to create one or more settlements and ship to Mercury,
we could look forward to having a colony that could provide us with
limitless energy and minerals. And we would have a group of Aryan
neighbors known as Hermians!