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We'll have people living in the "belts" working as ice haulers :) There is a great show called "The Expanse" that touches on this.

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The book (or rather books) is even better!

Upvoting both of you for referencing The Expanse (And the books, i.e Leviathan Wakes)... It's so good to see something that resembles hard-sci-fi on television.

The Expanse does resemble hard sci-fi. But besides the issue of gravity, its especially the issue of water (ice) where they seem to deviate from reality.

Basically Ceres is made out of ice - why would they need ice haulers to bring ice there; how could there possibly be a water shortage?

This is already covered in the book. The water ice on Ceres had already been used up in the colonisation efforts of Earth and then later: Mars.

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