From: Party of Citizens (citizens@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Wed May 21 2003 - 12:00:57 MDT
Now that is foresight! Now that we've solved the all-important ant-power
problem, any guestimates as to how much rocket power it would take to move
Pluto out of orbit and take it for a spin?
POC
On Wed, 21 May 2003 Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pluto_habitable_030520.html
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> <<ELIZABETH LAGANA/SPACE.com
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> It might be a few billion years before an ad like this appears in your local
> paper, but it could show up for good reason.
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> According to a new computer model designed to understand how the conditions
> for life might arise in unlikely places, humble Pluto and its surroundings
> will have warmed to downright pleasant temperatures long after the Earth has
> been consumed by an expanding, dying Sun.
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> "It's Miami Beach for millions of years, potentially longer," Alan Stern, a
> planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, says of Pluto's
> future.
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> Stern used existing data on the outer solar system, added in the latest
> theoretical expectations for the Sun's evolution, and analyzed it all from a
> biological perspective. His results will be published in the journal
> Astrobiology.>>
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