Interstellar Nomads: The Problem Of Detecting Comets

E. M. Jones et al. (1993), JBIS, 46, pp.27-30

Refcode: 1993.46.27

Abstract:

Following a suggestion by Dyson [l], Jones and Finney [2) noted that realisations of technologies necessary to the construction of large habitats in cis-lunar space [3] might eventually lead to the establishment of self-supporting communities living in free space at successively greater distances from the Sun. Communities might be established first near the Main Belt asteroids and at some later time, experienced and motivated emigrants from the Main Belt might begin the settlement of the Oort cloud and, once there, mine comets gravitationally bound to the Sun. Eventually, descendants of the original Oort cloud settlers might make use of resources derived from true interstellar comets.