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To: shove_it

3-D printing combined with asteroid mining could be the genesis of a great leap in human space flight.


7 posted on 12/21/2014 1:37:42 PM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: cripplecreek

Yeppers. You could 3d print satellites (for Earth and other planets), space-based manufacturing facilities, space stations, manned space vehicles to explore the solar system, etc., etc.


12 posted on 12/21/2014 1:44:38 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: cripplecreek

building entire ships in space, maybe not even in orbit, is probably a good idea.


46 posted on 12/21/2014 7:47:49 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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