Recent content by Bram Silbert

I'm currently considering working on a story about a human who is part of a hive mind which has its central intelligence destroyed, and I was wondering what kind of physical/mental effects might this have on one who has been assimilated for an extended period of time? BTW I'm thinking this hive...

I think it would make the most sense to have the setting be on 5 or 6 habitable moons orbiting around gas giant, with mostly earth-like conditions and gravity, with many other smaller moons also orbiting the planet. Are there any other problems with this or does this work out?

Also, an alternative for me would be to set it on a ring of moons around a planet. Would that make more sense? And once again, how large would the moons have to be to be habitable? For this situation, just assume the planet the moons are orbiting is Earth-sized.

Thanks for the replies! If pluto-sized is too small, then how big would the asteroids have to be to be habitable while still falling into an asteroid belt-ish formation? They don't have to be very close together, just close enough that someone would be able to travel between them in a reasonably...

I'm interested in setting my story in an asteroid belt, with the belt basically being the outer space equivalent of an archipelago. First, I would want to know if it is even feasible to have an asteroid belt filled with habitable worlds, and I was also wondering what the effects of living in a...