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