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Colonizing the Kuiper Belt (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Problems With Colonizing Asteroids and Dwarf Planets

Asteroids are likely to be among the most valuable real estate and mining sites in the solar system. Only maybe a hundred asteroids have high enough gravity to even qualify as significant. Most asteroids not even having enough gravity to hold you onto them if you jumped. We can't create a comfortable similar acrum of gravity by rotation, what we call spin gravity.

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