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To: NicknamedBob
Boring machines -- the only one who gets excited about them is Dead Corpse.

Aw... yer' makin' me blush. Some of the machines we used were highly specialized for each task. We had not just the native olivine to dig through, but also some various metals and other mineral rocks to contend with. We also wanted to process some of these on site to use as building materials for certain support structures and recycling systems.

So, while one "boring" machine might just grind up a material, another might actually be designed to vaporize it, distill out certain elements from the vapor, and deposit the various materials in storage containers. We used a variety of techniques including pulsed laser, a kind of ultra-sound "chisel" that cuts the same way a diamond cutter would chip carbon crystals, various explosives, and even an experimental kind of inductor that would literally cause the rock itself to heat up and go into a molten state.

While the substrate rock is certainly unique, and the tunnels give the illusion of changing on irregular levels, my alien masters I can assure you that there was no UFO that hit here.

1,033 posted on 01/06/2007 2:34:07 PM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
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To: Dead Corpse; Soaring Feather; rottndog
"So, while one "boring" machine might just grind up a material, another might actually be designed to vaporize it, distill out certain elements from the vapor, and deposit the various materials in storage containers."

This is the primary reason wee cobbled together our first crude nuclear reactors.

The electricity needs were enormous.

1,040 posted on 01/06/2007 2:44:17 PM PST by NicknamedBob (My tuner doesn't have good taste the way it used to!)
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