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33. I like this idea...'Project Hyperion: The Hollow Asteroid Starship'

Wed Jul 29, 2015, 07:49 PM

Jul 2015

A large space mirror heats up an asteroid, slowly melting it. Water, which was injected into the center of the body expands, blows up the melted material, creating the shape of a balloon. After cooling down, rotation is induced into the hollow body creating artificial gravity.

A team of bio-life-support system experts, urban planners, and ecologists starts to create an artificial world inside the balloon, preparing it for the first settlers. The small world is then provided with a propulsion system and launched to one of the next stars or used as a space colony.

http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/project-hyperion-the-hollow-asteroid-starship-dissemination-of-an-idea/

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You are correct, it was viruses, not cellular life-forms. And viruses are not able to Cal33 Jul 2015 #37

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