Re: Terraforming the Moon

jimp_at_specsol-spam-sux.com
Date: 11/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:40:41 +0000 (UTC)

In sci.physics habshi <habshi@anony.com> wrote:
> Of course one doesnt expect Uncle Al , in his little space
> ship , making trips from Venus or the Asteroid belt , transporting
> atmospheres to the Moon and Mars .
> However once something is automated the cost falls to
> practically zero eg phone calls would be mighty expensive if still
> routed manually.

Add business to the list of things habshi doesn't understand.

The comparitvely high cost of phone calls was not due to minimum wage
operators routing calls. It was because of recovering capital costs
spread over a small number of customers.

This happened twice; once when the system was being established and again
when the overseas cables were layed.

> So robots on the moon would build millions of space ships
> powered with Helium 3 , fusion engines .
> This is also why my idea of six lane underground rail networks
> on the moon and here on earth would bring about so much prosperity .
> The cost of transporting material would fall to practically zero as
> millions of truck drivers would be saved billions of boring journeys.
> They would just have to load the wagon on to the underground rail at a
> nearby station and somebody drive it off at the other end.

A way to get large amounts of heavy things to the moon (or anywhere in
space) doesn't exist.

Robots to build space ships don't exist.

Fusion engines don't exist.

A way to get enormous quantities of helium 3 out of the moon doesn't exist.

No one in their right mind ships things by rail unless it is too big or
too heavy to put on a truck for a whole lot of reasons habshi would
never understand.

habshi lives in a comic book world. 

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Jim Pennino
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