I wrote:
> If the human race survives for a million years into the future, who is to > say we will not be capable of harnessing the sun, mining Jupiter, or > transmuting hydrogen into any element we want? > I gather Jupiter is mostly hydrogen. Assuming wilderness preservation societies have no objection, and there is no life on Jupiter, we might mine the hydrogen, convert it to iron and other elements common here on earth, and construct 317 planets the size of earth. I am not sure where we would put them, but it would be fun. Plan B would be to construct giant revolving space-based habitats with earth-like gravity and conditions. With 10E27 kg of material you could make quite a few of them. Probably enough to give every person thousands of square kilometers of living space, with dozens of palaces. We could all live like the Seigel family in the movie "The Queen of Versailles." I personally could not stand that for more than a few days . . . But anyone who wanted to, could. - Jed
