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Arthur C. Clarke wrote in his "3001: The Final Odyssey" novel about exploitation of Saturn's icy rings for water and grazing space ice blocks (wrapped by reflec
by pndy 6y ago
Arthur C. Clarke wrote in his "3001: The Final Odyssey" novel about exploitation of Saturn's icy rings for water and grazing space ice blocks (wrapped by reflective molecule-thin foil) by comets shepherds, who were also delivering these to terraform nomen-omen, Venus.
Perhaps he read this paper and got the ideas from it
- trenchgun 6y agoI did read that book too, but it was a decade ago. Had forgotten there was this concept in there.