Old, dopey Beast RE: Spaaaaaace Patrol!

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I don't understand what the order of system habitation has to do with it.

When redirecting asteroids/comets from the Keplar or Ort region, how is
it
more advantages to have patrols in the Keplar/Ort region if we populate
Io or some other outer solar system body before Mars than if we do the same
populating Mars first, then the Io etc.?
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Of course, my assumption was that the target IS in the inner system. Not a big
thing; unless the target is already near the path of an object, it'll still be
a long, slow process, wherever it's located, in my simplistic understanding of
orbital mechanics.

The_Beast

-Douglas J. Evans, curmudgeon

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