[LINK] Centauri Dreams on cometary civilizations

[rfmcdpei]

Writing at his blog Centauri Dreams, Paul Gilster in the previous days has made three posts about the audacious possibility of colonizing the Oort cloud, drawing on earlier writers referenced in the posts. The Kuiper belt and the scattered disc, zones of the solar system stretching far beyond the orbit of Neptune, are remote enough: frigid, distant

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[resonant]

The thing is, unless you're worried about advanced viruses and DDOS attacks, who would WANT to live a light-hour away from everyone? And if you want a delay in communications loops, it's easy enough to put your habitat in a Faraday cage, with a timed buffer on the line going to your only antenna.

If we do extract resources from the Oort, it'll be done by robots. And not particularly bright ones, as our AIs will also want to bask comfortably in the warm, high-energy, high-bandwidth, low-latency zone near the sun.

[resonant]

"Porous and undifferentiated, these bodies are malleable enough to make them interesting from the standpoint of resource extraction. "

But I LIKE differentiation when extracting resources! It makes it easier to get the good stuff if your ores are concentrated in veins.