RE: PLUTO, Our Future Home

From: spike66@attbi.com
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 00:59:30 MDT

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    > > >
    > > > I am a big fan of colonizing this outer
    > > > ring of worlds... Harvey Newstrom...
    > >
    > > I dont get it Harvey. Lots of real estate out there,
    > > not enough solar energy coming in. The better rocks
    > > are in closer, and there are plenty of them in the
    > > asteroid belts.
    >
    > You call those puny little rocks "worlds"?

    Ja. I am starting to think of Amara's interplanetary
    dust particles as worlds.

    > Most of them aren't even round.

    Of course that doesn't matter, since we are going to
    take them apart anyway, and make them into things that
    aren't round.

    > They don't have enough water.

    Water will be practically useless for making the kinds
    of stuff I have in mind.

    > The don't have little atmospheres.

    Don't need atmospheres if you handle your matter
    correctly.

    > They aren't on the edge of the solar system, leading to the stars.

    That much I will give you, but my notion is that we have
    a lotta cool stuff we can do with the material that is
    in close, before we need to think about the next star
    system.

    > The entire
    > asteroid belt contains about 1% of the real-estate of the Kuiper belt. :-)

    Real estate schmeal estate. Total mass of the solid material
    is what counts. spike



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