From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 22:50:06 MDT
At 04:50 PM 9/7/03 -0700, Robert wrote in the mode of one invading Poland
(there's a little implicit smiley there):
>Zubrin also botched the entire "development of Mars" concept --
>he gets into a discussion of taking hunks of Mars putting them
>into space to provide solar power satellites but doesn't realize
>that with nanotech you can dismantle the entire planet
[Z's approach]
>requires an expensive terraforming process which may include
>hauling comets across a significant fraction of the solar system
>to provide enough water, CO2 and atmospheric pressure -- it just
>isn't worth the trouble.
But... but... Robert, if you can pull a perfectly nice and inoffensive
planet apart cheaply with nano, surely you can use the same technology to
haul in the comets etc and terraform it. That might seem a shocking waste
of resources to you, but it isn't an *expensive* one, by hypothesis.
Damien Broderick
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