Re: Colonizing a Neutron Star

James A. Donald wrote:

Perhaps they are doing something that requires a great deal of energy,
such as mass producing anti matter, or doing high energy physics with
*really* high energies.

Indeed. If it's really necessary, why not set up an automated facility? You can control it remotely.

It seems unlikely that superconductors could exclude the magnetic
field when it gets really strong, so that probably limits how close
you can get.

For real superconductors, that limit is actually very low. It doesn't take a very strong magnetic field to penetrate a superconductor.

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