Well, we do observe a lot of star 'deaths', and I would guess that with those come planetary 'deaths' also, includin gthose with atmospheres, and even oxygen atmospheres. These atmospheres, and their oceans, would turn to ice when systems fail, so there would be quite a bit of debris of such cataclysms out there.

And by the by, recovery of such ice would also offer the added dubious 'benefit' of finding weird and wonderful examples of long-extinct lifeforms from dead worlds. Maybe even sapiens. Maybe even preserved enough to regenerate? Such a find would potentially constitute property, so the PCs could come into pocession of an entire species or dozen.

Could even find all sorts of 'junk' in such an ice field from a long-destroyed civilisation that 3I scientists and engineers may give their right arm for.

Cheers

Greg

On 24 February 2016 at 07:42, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

> On Feb 23, 2016, at 1:16 PM, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> But Bruce, how many exo-system Plutos could one expect to be out there? I'd say may be debris fields of Plutos for harvesting are more realistic?

We quite literally have no idea of what’s out there between the stars.

We don’t have the ability to see things that small, dark and cold; they could be common, they could be incredibly rare. We won’t know until we can look.

Heck, look at how much we’ve learned about Pluto in the last few months. I guaran-damn-tee you that if you suggested last year that we would find water icebergs ‘floating’ on a solid nitrogen ‘glacier’ people would have looked at you like you were crazy.

<https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/floating-hills-on-plutos-sputnik-planum>

Or that it’s moon was covered in water ice?

<https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-s-hulk-like-moon-charon-a-possible-ancient-ocean>

Or that Planet X was still out there???

<http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/feature-astronomers-say-neptune-sized-planet-lurks-unseen-solar-system>


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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
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Information Technology Group

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