Human settlement in space by 2036

 Finnish space physicist Pekka Janhunen says that human beings will start living in a space megacity in the next 15 years.

As per the scientist, the city will be 325 million miles away from Earth in the dwarf planet called Ceres. Laying out a blueprint for floating mega-satellites, Pekka said that his motivation is to have a settlement that has artificial gravity and allows growth beyond the living area of the Earth, reported The New York Post .

According to Dr Pekka, who works at the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Helsinki, because of having a nitrogen-rich environment, Ceres is a favourable planet for a human settlement.

The research says that the cylindrical spacecrafts will be floating in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

The blueprint includes thousands of disk-shaped space objects which will have the capacity of inhabiting 50,000 people each. These objects will be linked to each other and according to the research, they will have an artificial gravity that will keep them afloat in the atmosphere.

However, in space, there is a threat of rogue asteroids or space radiation hitting the settlements. But Dr Pekka has an answer for that as well. He said that giant cylindrical mirrors can be placed around the colony in order to protect it from getting hit by any radiation.

Although the research proposes many plans, Dr Pekka admits there are several hurdles in the way the first being flying people to the planet of Ceres. Another problem is the massive energy required to lift the materials from Ceres to the colony.