Colony in Asteroid Belt between Jupiter and Mars

On Oct 04, 2006, at 17:35 UTC, fan_johncena wrote:

> I've seen most of you talking about space settlements on moon or mars.

I thought we've been talking mostly about space settlements in orbit
(generally, around the Earth).

> wot abt the space settlemnt in the asteroid belt between jupiter and
> mars?

That's the obvious place to expand after Earth orbit and perhaps
Martian orbit. There are a lot of great resources there. But it's
VERY far away -- too far to jump right to before we have a lot of space
infrastructure closer in.

Best,
- Joe

Joe Strout -- joe@...