RE: PLUTO, Our Future Home

From: Party of Citizens (citizens@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 11:58:39 MDT

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    Speaking of Kuiper Belt, I understand there could be some other
    Pluto-sized icy rocks in it. But what about further out? Could there be
    earth-sized rocks half way between here and the next star?
    POC

    On Thu, 22 May 2003 spike66@attbi.com wrote:

    > > > > 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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