>you will not see the same number of companies spooling up assembly lines without massive costs. It's true, but I think this subject will scale throughout the

>you will not see the same number of companies spooling up assembly lines without massive costs. It's true, but I think this subject will scale throughout the entire survival category. Cheap throwaway materials is one thing .. in situ 3D replication, another thing entirely. The cottage industries can do a lot of the innovation. I think the sailboat/winnebago/portable-living engineering is going to come to a head, eventually .. and we will see new technologies, perhaps, springing up around the subject of human/biosphere construction. If you're suggesting that we won't have winnebago's on Mars, I don't wanna go there.