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Colonists of such bodies could also build [[space habitat|rotating habitats]] or live in dug-out spaces and light them with [[fusion reactor]]s for thousands to millions of years before moving on.<ref>[[Carl E. Sagan]], "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space". Random House, 1994, {{ISBN|0-345-37659-5}}.</ref>{{dubious|date=January 2016}}<!--Low gravity health issues.--> Dyson and [[Carl Sagan]] envisioned that humanity could migrate to neighbouring star systems, which have similar clouds, by using natural objects as [[Generation ship|slow interstellar vessels]] with substantial natural resources; and that such interstellar colonies could also serve as way-stations for faster, smaller interstellar ships. Alternatively Richard Terra has proposed using the materials from the Oort-cloud objects to build vast starlight collecting arrays to power habitats, thus making an Oort-cloud community essentially independent of its central star and fusion fuel supplies.<ref>Richard P. Terra, "Islands in the Sky: Human Exploration and Settlement of the Oort Cloud", in ''Islands in the Sky: Bold New Ideas for Colonizing Space'', Stanley Schmidt and Robert Zubrin, eds. Wiley, 1996, {{ISBN|0-471-13561-5}}</ref>

== Colonization of Pluto ==

Pluto is a very ideal place to colonize. We can extract oxygen from carbon monoxide, and carbon is a neccecity to life. Also, a thick atmosphere of nitrogen can give us enough to breathe. Plus, more carbon may come from methane, plus two [[Hydrogen]] [[Molecule|molecules]] can be used to fuse (or to create rocket fuel or water). Another way to get [[water]] is by drilling through the crust that is very thin to find the ice layer; probably [[Liquid|melted]] by [[Planetary core|the planetary core]] of [[Pluto]]. Then melt the mantle and get every need!

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