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> "manufactured by robots from local resources or asteroid mining." I feel like this just creates the new problems of operating, powering, and maintaining the
by 6177c40f 4y ago
> "manufactured by robots from local resources or asteroid mining."
I feel like this just creates the new problems of operating, powering, and maintaining the robots, plus all the difficulties associated with mining asteroids and refining the mined materials somewhere (presumably somewhere that's not Earth's surface, which means we still need to generate power somewhere off Earth for this to work).
- Mistletoe 4y agoI am still awaiting the future promised me where 3d printers replicate themselves. This is orders of magnitude easier than robots making themselves in outer space, yet we are still waiting and I assume we always will be.