re: Harvest solar power in the KB?

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ljk — 9/8/2005 5:10:21 PM (archived)

If you can travel numerous light years and set up a colony in the Kuiper Belt, you can use sunlight for energy that just a few billion kilometers away.

And this article from New Scientist shows that at least one of the new big KBOs is cigar-shaped - sounds kinda insterstellar ark shape type craft vesselish to me.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7968

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An Infrared Hunt for Artificial Kuiper Belt Objects - ljk - 9/8/2005 4:23:43 PM
- Deep Impact shows Tempel I porous - or could it be hollow? - Robert Clark - 9/8/2005 9:21:27 PM
  - That raises the question... - alcaray - 9/8/2005 10:37:13 PM
  - Our first contact with an ETI - whoops! - ljk - 9/8/2005 9:26:26 PM
    - Who's that going "Knock Knock" on MY Comet? - Nick Hoffman - 9/9/2005 8:12:22 AM
- Harvest solar power in the KB? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/8/2005 4:51:04 PM
  - re: Harvest solar power in the KB? - ljk - 9/8/2005 5:10:21 PM
    - To harvest meaningfull amounts, your collectors would have to be huge - alcaray - 9/8/2005 6:08:51 PM
      - re: To harvest meaningfull amounts, your collectors would have to be huge - ljk - 9/8/2005 7:17:35 PM
        
        If you want to get warm, move closer to the fire, is my advice. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/8/2005 7:59:08 PM
        
        re: If you want to get warm, move closer to the fire, is my advice. - ljk - 9/8/2005 8:05:27 PM
        
        Well, if they asked for my advice that's what it would be - alcaray - 9/8/2005 10:48:57 PM
        
        re: Well, if they asked for my advice that's what it would be - ljk - 9/9/2005 1:10:43 PM
        
        re: Well, if they asked for my advice that's what it would be - Johannes - 9/9/2005 8:35:31 PM
        
        First I would determine if they tasted anything like fried chicken. - Scott Evil - 9/13/2005 3:38:48 PM
        
        re: First I would determine if they tasted anything like fried chicken. - LJK - 9/13/2005 4:03:25 PM
        
        Maybe most KBOs have inhabitants - ljk - 9/8/2005 7:42:01 PM
        
        SETI Politics - LJK - 9/9/2005 5:20:03 PM
        
        Letter: response to "SETI politics" - LJK - 9/12/2005 3:16:35 PM
        
        robotic probes vs people - Sawyer - 9/12/2005 4:57:42 PM

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