The novel "Building Harlequin's Moon" by Niven and Cooper provides a nice example of such literal world-building, though with lower tech over a longer period.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

> On Sep 16, 2016, at 10:07 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On the other hand, if you've got antigrav technology, and ice in the
> asteroid belt, and some free time.... then you've got some really big
> lakes.

And if you have antigrav technology, a suitable orbital slot, a decent Oort cloud and a LOT of time, why you can make your own planet with an ocean to put your deep water emplacement in :-P

All it takes is a whole bunch of not-so-near-c lifeboats attached to iceballs and some fancy orbital calculation foot work to get them to crash together in the right place to start aggregating.

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