• JohnDClay
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    2 years ago

    Lots of water, useful for fuel. We also don’t see evidence of resource collection elsewhere

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      There’s giant chunks of water ice all over the place in the Kuiper belt, much easier to grab, not stuck in a gravity well full of corrosive oxygen and creepy creatures.