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Doubtful there are enough resources to sustainably maintain much of anything in NEO. Asteroids with significant reservoirs are far apart and navigating between
by paulryanrogers 2y ago
Doubtful there are enough resources to sustainably maintain much of anything in NEO. Asteroids with significant reservoirs are far apart and navigating between them is fraught.
Also how are the robots going to know what and how to maintain things? Otherwise they must be remote controlled. Yet their sensors break down over time.
Do reproducing robots even exist on Earth? How robust, nimble, and capable are they? Are their inputs found in space?
All that said, I do love the idea of a robot space colony producing useful things, even if all we gain are space probes and knowledge.
- im3w1l 2y agoRobot production on earth is entangled with the whole global supply chain. I do believe many of the steps are automatic or semi-automatic. It's """simply""" a matter of separating taking all those steps and separating them from the whole, packaging them into a bunch of boxes and sending them to space. So in other words it's incredibly complicated... but possible.
- Teever 2y agoYou may find this link interesting: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Seed_Factories https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Seed_Factories