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Amka
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While searching for some information for a story idea I have, I found this very good resource on stars that are the most sunlike in nature.

http://www.astronexus.com/eos/index.html


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okieinexile
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Way cool, Amka
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I often wonder why people obsess about colonizing planets (I am just the same, even though I know better). After all, once you learned to live off planet, why would you ever want to go back?

That said, I must add my kudos for the resource


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Amka
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No matter what, you will need an energy source, which will be a star.

These stars may very well NOT have planets. You could still do all sorts of neat space colonizing things with them, and sunlike stars would be the most likely to have the resources we need (such as iron, carbon, etc).


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For info on planetary systems discovered outside our own:


Planet Search:

http://exoplanets.org/


Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia:

http://www.obspm.fr/encycl/encycl.html


Note that the current estimate is that around 10% of stars have solar systems.

Also be aware that just because a star isn't sun-like doesn't mean to say that it doesn't have planets and/or moons suitable for colonisation.

PS - tried to post a table of star distances, but it wouldn't allow the formatting. Any way to get around this?


[This message has been edited by Chronicles_of_Empire (edited July 19, 2002).]


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JK
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If anyone wants to seriously colonise planets, I suggest they read Encounter With Tiber. Lots of salient points about terraforming and suriving in a already-existing ecosystem.
JK

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Try using the code tag...that should allow you to post text with tab alignment and so forth.
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I would like to say that one of the better books about intra-solar colonization is probably Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson. It and its two sequels, Green Mars and Blue Mars chronicle the socio-political environment through the time of Mars' colonization, as well as one of the more detailed scientific explanations of the process that exists in the fictional world.

just my take.


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