Colonizing the Kuiper Belt (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Problems With the Asteroid Belt
The Kuiper belt far out numbered all those minor planets in the inner system. They got demoted to minor planets after we started finding dozens of them, and that soon moved into thousands. The asteroid belt is divided into at least three distinct regions: Jupiter's Trojans are more like a thirtieth as much sunlight as Earth gets. You can also set up a glass dome on the surface of a small asteroid to basically be a lens, or several of them,. concentrating light on a smaller spot.
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