jamieplex

This sounds wrong. Firstly, it is generally around -450 degrees F in space (not toward the sun obviously), and to get that asteroid to continuously point toward the sun on one side is probably not gonna happen, and then that "insulated room" built on the asteroid is exorbitantly expensive by itself if it is of any consequential size, and finally, it is impossibly expensive (from energy cost to time cost to equipment cost) to 'mine' that ice from the asteroid. It ain't just sitting out there in cubes... (not to mention there aren't any asteroids hanging out around the Earth anywhere close, so you WILL be far away)

I know this whole thing is just a thought experiment, but I had to wonder about not only the cost of all of this per "astronaut" (off the cuff - $10M per person per year), but the massive amount of energy needed for "life and food production". Just a single line item on my list of "doubtful, but not impossible" is the three quarters of a million Joules of energy needed to melt just 1000 grams of asteroid ice inside your protective environment. And you are gonna need a LOT of liquid water to accomplish all of this out in space...

Sorry for offending you, sir. I had no intentions of that. I am a pretty simple kind of guy and thought that would help. Have a nice day!

Haha, thanks. I get downvoted just for showing up on this site. I have had to make a dozen different logins over 6-8 years. People just seem to hate my comments for whatever weird reason. (reference phyzome below) ;-P

Pretty simple really, I just asked their "Rufus" AI shopping assistant how to get help and got this:

"To access Amazon's customer support chat, you can visit the Your Orders section or scroll to the bottom of any page and select Customer Service. From there, choose the appropriate option that addresses your question or issue, and follow the prompts to initiate the chat."

To get help, select Customer Service ." (which is a button in the chat window)

Should work fine....

"I believe bringing children into a world of such uncertainty and possible collapse is not really that appealing either, whether or not that is realistic."

What a curious response. I have been hearing that argument for over 50 years, and, arguably, it has been used across the world since the first world war over 100 years ago, and (especially) since the first atomic bomb was dropped.

And yet it is essentially a feeble and frail argument based upon fear of the unknown.

Interesting to hear a techie say it.