Colonizing the Kuiper Belt (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Importance of Asteroid Belts in Space
Asteroid belt, main asteroid or Kuiper belt are all pitifully tiny compared to the raw mass of the eight major planets. Each contains far more resources than mankind has ever mined or refined, or even tilled. If you crumb it up an asteroid like nemesis and spread it over a whole planet, after all, it would represent about a meter deep of Earth. It is hard to say whether it would be easier to ship a big comet in from the Kuiper Belt to put air and water in the space habitat built in orbit around Earth.
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