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Isn't this more or less the "container ship" metaphor? Forcing everything into containers means the ship carries overhead weight and some unused space, but that
by vvillena 6y ago
Isn't this more or less the "container ship" metaphor? Forcing everything into containers means the ship carries overhead weight and some unused space, but that overhead is offset by the standardization of everything else in the logistics process.
A plane change can be expensive, but if there's a space station that can supply all the required fuel, who cares?
- simonh 6y agoThat fuel still has to get there somehow, so the cost is still being paid.
- ncmncm 6y agoAny argument of standardization efficiency applies overwhelmingly moreso for a low Earth orbit transfer station. The only reason even to talk about a lunar station is politics: a lunar station seems more exotic, and lunar orbit is easier to get to than the surface.