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[hirez]

A number of months ago I was idly considering a story in which Jolly Dutch Anarchist Astronauts pitch up on a random asteroid with spacegoing versions of a RepRap and fusion reactor in order to hollow it out and bootstrap themselves an orbital habitat.

It was to have been an extended ramble on the nature of gezellig because I had recently come

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[zotz]

The Ascension article's impressive, but not entirely unparallelled. Culzean estate was heavily planted at around the same time, which also altered the local climate.

[jarkman]

I'm thinking that by the time your Dutchmen get their rocket-Long-John into orbit, the tweaking of genes will have become an understood art.

At that point, it might turn out to be quite simple to instantiate a simple, all-engineered biosphere. Though that would be a lot less fun that turning up with the Royal Navy's Instant Island Kit, issued in seed form as part of every survival pack.

[zenmonkeykstop]

Danish goons are testing their first suborbital rocket this weekend. Better get cracking on the biosphere side.

[jarkman]

:-) Very topical. I'd forgotten that bit.