OryCon 44

Building a Carrying Capacity Model for the Solar Ecosystem and Examining a Technique to Encapsulate an Asteroid to Build Almost Anything in Space Imagining big, how large a population could the Solar System support? There are models, as Greg Barr will explain. One way to build a world-ship might be to encapsulate an appropriate asteroid with all the resources, and reaction mass, to sustain an interstellar journey, or settle the outer reaches of the solar system. We'll explore Dr. Bruce Damer's Secure Handling by Encapsulation of a Planetesimal (SHEP) concept.