Re: How to really terraform (part 1)

From: Sander Vesik (sander_at_haldjas.folklore.ee)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:31:21 +0000 (UTC)

Hop David <hopspageHATESSPAaMmM@tabletoptelephone.com> wrote:
>
>
> Sander Vesik wrote:
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> > More expensive than what? A generation ship is in approximately the same
> > order of magnitude as a large(ish) O'Neill colony. If there are lots of
> > O'Neill colonies out there (which is sort of implied by anybody bothering to
> > even consider the Kuiper belt) then making one more that would also leave
> > teh Solar system wouldn't be such a big thing.
>
> O'Neill colonies would be extremely massive. A rocket engine capable of
> accelerating an O'Neill colony even 10s of km/sec would be a big thing.
> An engine capable of accelerating an O'Neill colony to .1 c would be a
> _very_ big thing.
>

I don't think more than say 0.02 c is needed, even that might be too high.
Where's the hurry? Make an O'Neil colony that can accomodate 200K and
put say 15K people on it. 

-- 
	Sander
+++ Out of cheese error +++

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