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Quick google and Pluto has something like a surface temp of 47 kelvin. That’s cold enough that I think the material on the surface would turn explosively energe
by ianai 6y ago
Quick google and Pluto has something like a surface temp of 47 kelvin. That’s cold enough that I think the material on the surface would turn explosively energetic if ever exposed to something like the temperatures we humans live. It also wouldn’t have soil. That far out, you really need good sources of energy like fusion and fission as solar wouldn’t provide enough.
On the other hand, I’m sure there’s some incredible science to be done out there. Like making gigantic structures (particle accelerators, telescopes, etc) out of what ever can be scraped from nearby asteroids and such. I wish we could park a satellite around it.
- PaulHoule 6y agoWho wants to live on the surface? Cut Charon up into small ringworlds (e.g. no structural difficulties at 100 km radius but you do have to put a roof on; if you could make a journal bearing that can handle 10 km/s then you can make these bigger and not put on a roof) You can make very thin solar arrays out of plastic film + semiconductor layers. You only need D+D fusion once you get even further out.
- ianai 6y agoSeems to be about 1w/m2 at the best at Pluto. It’s over 1000 times higher out here. 1/1600 th the power available at earth. Doesn’t seem enough.
- philliphaydon 6y agoWe're gonna need computers there so we will ship some 10th gen Intels to use as heaters.
- stephenhuey 6y agoAnd run some Flash apps on them to keep the fires burning!
- manquer 6y agoElectron apps probably to keep up with times I would say
- bryanrasmussen 6y agogiven the surface temperature obviously some large corporations could run all its server farms there to keep them cooled. I nominate Facebook.
- theandrewbailey 6y agoI'm sure we can scrap together a few thousand Pentium 4-based Dells to send.