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To: cripplecreek

We can build something like that right now. But the cost is high. No one will commit.


31 posted on 10/01/2015 12:54:20 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

Major bulkheads and hulls could be printed in concrete mined from asteroids. A lot of the metallic internal structures could be printed from metals mined from the same asteroids.

For that matter you could mine the interior of an asteroid and use the shell as an outer hull.


37 posted on 10/01/2015 1:01:36 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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