From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Sun May 25 2003 - 21:16:38 MDT
On Sunday, May 25, 2003 8:50 PM Party of Citizens citizens@vcn.bc.ca
wrote:
> OK, scrap Pluto. Let's assemble all the rocks in the Asteroid Belt
instead
> by moving them together with Space Tugs. We create a new planet. As we
do
> so, we save this planet from accidental collision and we mine the
> asteroids which will make every human on earth a multi-billionaire if
we
> can keep mining costs at terrestrial levels. The tailings are expelled
> from Planet X by catapult and that gives us extra thrust to make
Planet X
> for a spin.
It's a long term project, but we already have planets. Why make more?
Seems asteroids would have better uses.
In the near term, I'd like to see more real exploration and mining
there -- rather than just talk about what can be done with
post-Singularity tech.
Cheers!
Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
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