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Re:The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive from his ... by max76 on Monday May 13, 2019 @09:24PM (#19905921)
Ceres is about 2.5AU from the sun, has more water than Earth and the mass of 0.00015 Earths. The ort cloud is 1,000-100,000 AU away.

I am making the assumption that we will have a much stronger preference for water closer to Earth, and we aren't talking about large gravity wells.

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Re:The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive from his ... by DuskStar on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @12:31AM (#19906795)
There's a massive practical difference between Ceres size gravity wells that can be escaped with a half-decent cannon and ones that can't. And I've never heard of people suggesting there might be life on/in Ceres.
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