If you don't have access to Earth(but still the moon) or the Sun, where could you obtain enough hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen to create enough water and an N2 and O2 atmosphere for, say a population of 2 billion people? And you wouldn't be able to get materials from anywhere past Uranus. Would you be able to artificially mass produce these elements relatively easily?
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$\begingroup$ Water can be retrieved from the rings of Saturn. Water, of course, can be split to get oxygen. Nitrogen might be a problem, though. $\endgroup$– Joe L.Commented Apr 18, 2016 at 22:59
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1$\begingroup$ Some asteroids have ammonia which can be a source of Nitrogen: NH3. Check out asterank.com. Look for Type=C or Type=Cg. There are also asteroids with water. $\endgroup$– MattDCommented Apr 18, 2016 at 23:07
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$\begingroup$ Partial answer: oxygen extraction from C02 (Mars, etc): space.stackexchange.com/questions/5094/… $\endgroup$– AndyCommented Apr 19, 2016 at 11:13
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Water- Can be obtained from pretty much any non-gas giant object beyond the middle of the asteroid belt. This includes comets, moons of outer solar system planets, even objects like Pluto, etc.
Nitrogen- The best source is Titan, although it can be found in a number of places.
Oxygen- Can be found where there is water, and is in quite a few other locations, if one has the energy to separate. For instance, it can be found on the Moon, Mars, etc.
The materials for life are quite abundant in the Solar System, one just has to look. The hardest is Nitrogen, but that is still available in the right places.
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answered Apr 19, 2016 at 13:59
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2$\begingroup$ any rocky asteroid have Oxygen, oxygen totally no problem $\endgroup$– MolbOrgCommented Apr 25, 2016 at 0:35