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No respect is due, I know nothing. I see what the article is saying, it’s point being about doing more research. It was really well written. I was just trying t
by IgorPartola 6y ago
No respect is due, I know nothing. I see what the article is saying, it’s point being about doing more research. It was really well written. I was just trying to see if I understood the theory of the events that happened that the article presented correctly, since there would be a much greater than 0 possibility that I missed some crucial step in reading it.
As far as the larger point of the article/last paragraph, I couldn’t agree more. We keep taking up more space and using more resources while the plant stays the same size. It’s not sustainable. Maybe we need to stop shipping so much stuff around since let’s face it a decent amount of it is useless consumer junk. I can also see us building ships so large that they don’t go to ports but rather get unloaded onto smaller ships off shore, similar to how a planet to planet spacecraft might not be able to land/take off but only go between orbital stations.
- m4rtink 6y agoActually transshipping at sea is petty hard - wave action will impact ships differently and could effectively grind them together, not only ruining your positioning to safely move cargo between ships but also might damage the ships themselves, especially if one of them is significantly bigger than the other. Nothing like this in a free fall environment, so this should be much easier to do in space. As long as there is no atmosphere and the shipscare not insanely big (too many km) or gravity gradient not insanely high (netron stars, etc.).
- fian 6y agoWe already have ship to ship cargo transfers (Lightering): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightering due to draft concerns for the larger vessel.