Could we be able to colonize eventually the mini-worlds in the kuiper Belt or even the Oort Cloud possibly?

Answer 1

Certainly. Providing there was sound economic reason to do so and technology becomes so advanced that travel there is cheap. Culturally you would have to have people willing to live several AU distant from the earth. No theatre or concerts. And probably really hard to find good Thai food.

As population increases, the world will have to either mandate strict population controls or ship people off world. Otherwise the population will collapse and the collapse of a technological civilization would not be pretty.

The Physicist Freeman Dyson postulated that high level civilizations would create a virtual sphere of habitats surrounding their sun to maximize the utilization of the suns energy. In science fiction these "Dyson Spheres" are often visualized as a single, physical sphere, with a unholy large surface area, surrounding a sun. A sub-category of these are Ringworlds. But numerous vastly smaller habitats are far more likely and feasible.

Answer 2

They could be hollowed out for living in, and spun for gravity. Robotic landers and miners would do the hard work first. This scenario is suggested in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars novels.

Answer 3

Colonize? Yes, but you'd have to be prepared for the near-zero light & extreme cold.

Answer 4

I don't think so. Those are WAY too cold. Cold enough to freeze oxygen into a solid ice.

Answer 5

There would need to be some kind of incredibly good economic incentive to do so.

Doug

Answer 6

'Eventually'...anything may happen. But why would anyone colonize such an uninhabitable place?

Answer 7

Low gravity and ultra-cold.... No atmoshpere either.

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