Digest Number 88

--- In spacesettlers@y..., phoebos@w... wrote:
> Lets take it a step further. If you have this large structure
floating
> around in space anyways, and a way to move it around, you could use
it
> as a solar parasol to shade Venus, and start a very long cooldown
> process. Or you could use it to reflect extra light onto Mars, and
warm
> it up. Or to turn it into a gigantic parabola and use it to "burn
up'
> Earth threatening asteroids (or at least alter their courses), This
> could be a handy tool, if we could build it.
> So, when do we start on it?

Hmm...cooling down Venus, to terraform it perhaps? I would want to
do something about the spin of the planet first... but there are five
Sun-Venus libration points that are potentially useful...

:) ed