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Specifically preventing us from leaving earth? If our low earth orbit space gets too full of debris, we become stuck until we can find ways to clear it out.
by 8note 6y ago
Specifically preventing us from leaving earth?
If our low earth orbit space gets too full of debris, we become stuck until we can find ways to clear it out.
- tsimionescu 6y agoThat seems much more doable than having a completely self-sustaining space industry on Mars (from mining to chip manufacturing and everything in between, all life support functions intact, all underground or in heavily radiation-shielded buildings, and no fossil fuel plastics, all spanning the Martian globe to actually get access to the various minerals).
- zabzonk 6y agoQuite. What I would like to hear from all these gung-ho types, is how we go about producing quantities of a simple 2-core power cable, on Mars, or in the asteroids or the Moon. But no doubt they will say: use broadcast power.
- _Microft 6y agoI don't know how but I am convinced that we are capable of finding out if we actually try.
- zabzonk 6y agoWhat gives you this conviction? Have you considered how many processes and materials producing a power cable involves on Earth?
- _Microft 5y agoLook at the history of humankind and the progress that we have made in the last two centuries alone, what other conviction could one have with that in mind?
- Animats 6y agoBack in the 1980s, some Stanford AI lab people were talking about self-replicating robots on the moon by 2000. I asked "how soon can you do it in Arizona". They didn't like that. I'd like to see a system that, allowed to order any stock catalog item on Amazon or Digi-Key, could self-replicate.