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"and then we just lift half the mass of Mercury out from its current orbit to 1AU efficiently" is one hell of a thing to handwave away. Nearly as big as the tra
by al2o3cr 12y ago
"and then we just lift half the mass of Mercury out from its current orbit to 1AU efficiently" is one hell of a thing to handwave away. Nearly as big as the transition from "we'll need advanced nanomaterials that don't currently exist" to "there's iron, so we can build things out of that"...
- captn3m0 12y agoOh yes, its very handwavy, but a good read nonetheless. I also wonder if this is really needed? It would be far better to try for higher efficiency and fusion. Fusion, especially would lead to far more energy than we can ever use, I feel. Especially because the raw materials for fusion are abundant in the universe.
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