Re: Durability of materials in space

From: Russell Wallace (wallacethinmintr_at_eircom.net)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:14:08 GMT

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:28:30 +0100, Mike Williams
<nospam@econym.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>One physical problem with the goldfish bowl concept would that dust
>would tend to accumulate on the outside. I'd guess that after a few
>million years there'd be insufficient sunlight getting through to keep
>the system running.

Hmm, will dust persist indefinitely in interplanetary space? If you're
serious about colonizing a solar system, you're going to use all the
asteroids and comets, leaving only the fragments too small to be worth
collecting. Will these still be around after billions of years? 

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