100-Year Starship some way off

Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven explored this thought briefly. As people move out into the outer system, they will establish homes and habitats on and around many moons and planets, but, eventually those groups will develop splinter groups who will naturally move out into first the Kuiper belts in a disk, and then after making use of available Kuiper Objects, they will move on snowball after comet after snowball through the Oort Cloud (which extends as a sphere extending 3 light years out in ever direction from the edge of our own solar system) until theyre actually moving into someone elses Oort Cloud. Now thats a lot of volume and resources to utilize and grow cramped in, but by that time well be at the kuiper belts of our neighboring stars.
From: Al Globus
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 7:34 PM
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [spacesettlers] : 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
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