Fascinating paper, I'm going to have to spend some more time with it later today. I did love this quote though which captures the ethos of what they are proposi

Fascinating paper, I'm going to have to spend some more time with it later today. I did love this quote though which captures the ethos of what they are proposing: >: Our asteroid restructuring approach can be compared to the effort of early pioneers. A wagon heading west in America in the 1800s could not carry enough supplies to support a family for the journey or at the destination. These pioneers brought tools with them to be self-sufficient [Williams 2016]. Our restructuring relies on self-replication, but more important, on the production of tools to make the restructuring effort self-sufficient and sufficiently productive.