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Machines need to be maintained. Machines of useful complexity include such parts as microprocessors. To create new or replacement parts, nothing less than the f
by ajnin 7y ago
Machines need to be maintained. Machines of useful complexity include such parts as microprocessors. To create new or replacement parts, nothing less than the full Earth industrial complex is required. It's not clear how to package all that in a ship, including enough reserves to bootstrap an industry up to the point it is possible to build microprocessors. I doubt that "machine life" could subsist on a small barren rock with more success than biological life.
- roca 7y agoIt's very interesting to consider what would be required for a minimal industrial complex that supports microprocessors. My intuition is that it would be much smaller than "the full Earth industrial complex". Seems like a question that is actually answerable with research, and potentially important too as a hedge against our current industrial complex collapsing.
- robbiep 7y agoHere’s an article on that: http://caseyexaustralia.blogspot.com/2018/09/how-to-industrialize-mars.html?m=1 http://caseyexaustralia.blogspot.com/2018/09/how-to-industri...
- roca 7y agoExcellent link, thanks! That's exactly the sort of analysis required, though a lot more is needed. I didn't follow why mining has to be (or should be) so human-labor-intensive.
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- Aperocky 7y agoExactly, any such ship would be packaged around a processing unit factory