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To: Marie

How about a space station built around a massive one, to print spacecraft too large to launch from our gravity well?

I don’t know where you’d get the raw materials, maybe a space elevator, or launching them up with a rail gun.


22 posted on 11/08/2013 8:00:15 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

have the station in asteroid orbit mining the belt for raw material....nom nom nom


24 posted on 11/08/2013 8:13:23 PM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothings)
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To: Boogieman
How about a space station built around a massive one, to print spacecraft too large to launch from our gravity well?

I don’t know where you’d get the raw materials, maybe a space elevator, or launching them up with a rail gun.

This is why there are asteroids, which are also not at the bottom of our gravity well.

41 posted on 11/08/2013 10:48:45 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: Boogieman

“I don’t know where you’d get the raw materials . . .”

The asteroid belt if cock full of raw material.


44 posted on 11/09/2013 12:13:06 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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