This is a general thread to post stuff by think tanks or other (credible) research institutes that go way outside current scopes of science.
One example to hit it off would be this:
KUBEČ, a - short, 9-page - analysis by the German Aerospace Agency Advanced Study Group
Essentially evaluating how the Kuiper Belt could be exploited. With a timeframe of 2065 to 2200, beginning with sending a self-replicating mining factory to a KBO, taking 100 years until the first mass mined ressource shipments to the inner solar system begin and culminating in creating a Solar-System Positioning System using beacons spread throughout the Kuiper belt.
Available (in english) at: http://elib.dlr.de/84843/1/IAC_Kube_v3.pdf
Let's keep it to credible institutions though. Someone dig up what scientists at NASA ponder for that timeframe for example.
One example to hit it off would be this:
KUBEČ, a - short, 9-page - analysis by the German Aerospace Agency Advanced Study Group
Essentially evaluating how the Kuiper Belt could be exploited. With a timeframe of 2065 to 2200, beginning with sending a self-replicating mining factory to a KBO, taking 100 years until the first mass mined ressource shipments to the inner solar system begin and culminating in creating a Solar-System Positioning System using beacons spread throughout the Kuiper belt.
Available (in english) at: http://elib.dlr.de/84843/1/IAC_Kube_v3.pdf
Let's keep it to credible institutions though. Someone dig up what scientists at NASA ponder for that timeframe for example.
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