It appears that Interstellar inadvertently vindicated

On 11/22/14 11:21 AM, Al Globus alglobus@... [spacesettlers] wrote:

> If we are successful, I expect there will be a lot of space settlements
> (eventually). By lots, I mean millions in this solar system alone (at
> least one for each largish asteroid, which will supply materials). This
> will, of course, take awhile.

My son Kevin calculated he could make about 330,000 colonies, housing
just over a billion people, out of the material in Phobos.

Of course that's a rough calculation and assumes all mass is equal,
which isn't true, etc... but it illustrates the idea. The solar system
is really really big, and contains an awful lot of material.

- Joe