Asteroid use

--- "Combs, Mike" wrote:
> From: Marcel Williams [mailto:newpapyrus@...]
>
> Is nothing sacred? The only thing worse than that is
> the idea of terraforming Mars, IMO-- or maybe
> filling
> in the Grand Canyon in Arizona :-).
>
> I can beat that. I remember a sci-fi story where we
> were about to build a
> Dyson Sphere. The only problem was that the
> conversion of Jupiter's
> hydrogen/helium mass would produce too much heat for
> all the myriad orbital
> settlements. So first we had to dismantle the Earth
> to build a sphere
> around Jupiter. The locals sure were pissed...
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Combs
>
MW: The Dyson Sphere idea-- always-- puts a smile on
my face. You could probabably build a quadrillion huge
habitats with that mass.