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Using Asteroids As Spaceships (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Big Asteroid Is a Big Asteroids

needing barely a million the energy and thrust to get them aligned on a good trajectory you might transform one into a giant hydroponics. After serving as a big cycle for a couple centuries and reaching a population of a couple million it decides it's tired of being a constant pond between various earth and motion power groups. They're cutting a deal with a governor of Neptune's largest chandelier city to refit them for new model fusion reactors and pump them up on fusion fuel they are not stopping at Neptune everything is going to be carefully time to rendezvous with them as they quark screw out of the solar system by the year 2626.

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