100-Year Starship some way off

On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:27 AM, Lucio de Souza Coelho wrote:

> So maybe space
> colonists don't really need to go all the way to Alpha Centauri, they
> can just slowly "diffuse", replicating habitats/increasing population
> from interstellar object to insterstellar object, and eventually that
> wave would reach other systems.

Good point.

> In a poor analogy, it would be like
> people colonizing islands in an ocean and eventually reaching other
> continents...

Actually, a pretty good analogy. I think the Polynesians did
something like this.

The materials in one asteroid (the largest ) are sufficient to make
orbital space colonies with ~150 times the surface area of the Earth
in usable real estate. See http://space.alglobus.net for details.

Al Globus
http://alglobus.net

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