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Good point - the exposed surface are for easy mining is pretty massive for outer system objects & accessible without the need for advanced stuff like planet cra
by m4rtink 6y ago
Good point - the exposed surface are for easy mining is pretty massive for outer system objects & accessible without the need for advanced stuff like planet cracking and solar lifting.
- ncmncm 6y agoAt 1G acceleration, nothing in the Kuiper belt is more than a few days away. You can send out robots if you need more mass than you have on hand. Or, maybe you are robots, and can take 100G. Then the Oort cloud is your playground.
- m4rtink 6y agoWith sustained > 1G we are effectively talking torch drives, not just "normal" fusion drives. Not many technologies we know of that might pull that off, possibly with the exception of nuclear salt water rocket.
- ncmncm 6y agoAnything we could ever cobble together is necessarily unspeakably primitive when compared to what the Oort Cloud "elder gods" perfected lo untold eons before primates first chipped rocks.