Actually, I stand by my remark about radiation shielding above. Which means the outer shell of J. Random Rockhounds Pre-Fabricated Space Habitat may well be over a hundred meters thick.
Hidden Asteroid is probably one of the 2-3km rocks; they're going to need space if they're going to be a "village".
Finally, something like 75%+ of asteroids are mostly carbon, not useful metals - I could see that being where most of the Habitat conversions come from, with the spoils being converted through 'waved refinery processing into diamondoid structural members for construction, etc... (Crystal Cities, anyone?![[Image: smile.gif]](http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif)
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"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
Hidden Asteroid is probably one of the 2-3km rocks; they're going to need space if they're going to be a "village".
Finally, something like 75%+ of asteroids are mostly carbon, not useful metals - I could see that being where most of the Habitat conversions come from, with the spoils being converted through 'waved refinery processing into diamondoid structural members for construction, etc... (Crystal Cities, anyone?
-- "I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.