From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Wed May 21 2003 - 10:45:57 MDT
spike66@attbi.com wrote,
> > Spudboy100@aol.com wrote,
> > Subject: PLUTO, Our Future Home
> > http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pluto_habitable_030520.html
> > <<ELIZABETH LAGANA/SPACE.com
> >
> > Woohoo! Remember that Pluto is just one of many thousands of such
> > Trans-Neptunian objects...As many of you already know, 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"? Most of them aren't even round.
They don't have enough water. The don't have little atmospheres. They
aren't on the edge of the solar system, leading to the stars. The entire
asteroid belt contains about 1% of the real-estate of the Kuiper belt. :-)
On a more serious note, this article was talking about a billion years from
now when the sun has expanded and burned up the Earth and the Pluto zone
would be warmed up to earth-like temperature and sunlight levels. I guess
if you're impatient, you can move to the asteroids now. But rest assured
that this will just be a temporary location of a billion years before the
outer ring looks more attractive.
(OK, maybe I just have a thing for the Pluto belt. What's not to like?
"Planet-X", Cthulhu, turning habitable by itself, interstellar spaces,
interplanetary outlands, undiscovered planets, etc. It seems like the
perfect setting for a sci-fi future. The asteroids are so last century.)
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC, IBMCP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> <www.Newstaff.com>
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