Re: Business and commerce in space.

"kT" <cosmic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Then you've got to cook them in zero g,

Perhaps, if this is happening directly at the focus of a solar mirror. If
we're instead using some kind of heat pump system, this could happening
inside a centrifuge, or even inside of an industrial facility which is
rotating in its entirety. If it only has to do better than Cere's <3%G, it
could be of very modest radius-length and low RPM.

I don't see why not, the evidence is that it is pristine. All I expect
that it would be a little beat up. That's good. The more beat up the
better to expose the subsurface ocean.

Please see my other posting.

In space? Good luck with that.

Not sure why you say that. It's widely accepted that use of centrifugal
force in space will be routine, especially given that a structure in vacuum
can be kept rotating without additional application of power, regardless of
scale.

No, we're not asking you about your spaceship design. We're asking how
the
first Ceres colonist will balance their trade. And with what export to
which market?

If you are thinking that far ahead you are not a realist.

I'm happy to be judged on this score on the basis of trying to think ahead
with regard to balance of trade and available markets.

That's my architecture, Phobos and Ceres with cryogenic solar powered
unmanned tank systems and missions, and I'm sticking by it.

Little tiny regolith scoopers that run all the time on minimal power.

Camaras and instruments.

OK, I get your point that while I'm thinking about space industrialization
of the type Gerard O'Neill proposed, you're thinking about near-term
resource retrieval missions with current launch systems. I would argue that
it doesn't really matter which future era ones head is in; passing up
low-Delta-V targets with what you want in favor of higher-Delta-V targets
makes no sense in either era.

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