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