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waste all that energy to move trillions of tons soil into space. Nobody plans on doing that. There are already trillions of tons of material _in_ space - it m
by bdunbar 14y ago
waste all that energy to move trillions of tons soil into space.
Nobody plans on doing that. There are already trillions of tons of material _in_ space - it merely needs to be moved to where you want the habitat to be.
- pan69 14y agoIndeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining
- dredmorbius 14y agoActually, lunar mining was the O'Neill model as I understand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_mining https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_mining