You fail to factor in the enormous sheer tonnage of steel and other
metals required. Confounding that it's not just peak oil we're at, it's
peak nearly everything.
Jed would argue, I think, that enough energy combined with engineering
and plant materials -renewables- will make feasible cheap
David L. Babcock olb...@gmail.com wrote:
You fail to factor in the enormous sheer tonnage of steel and other metals
required.
I suppose a star ship would have to be made of stronger materials than
steel. Something more like what you make a space elevator out of.
Confounding that it's not
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