It would actually be nice if there were blobs all around you - not just a thin string of them.  If we had the belt have a 'cross-section' of about 10 blobs - then we'd be only 1.5 million kilometers from the star and now we'd have only 10 seconds to wait to transmit our brains across the disk.
 
It would actually be nice if there were blobs all around you - not just a thin string of them.  If we had the belt have a 'cross-section' of about 10 blobs - then we'd be only 1.5 million kilometers from the star and now we'd have only 10 seconds to wait to transmit our brains across the disk.