02-02-2018, 09:25 PM | #51 |
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Re: Will the Space Colony children be the Startravelers?
It's only massive in individual human terms. Yeah, something the size of Island Three or some comparable habitat is big to a human, many miles long and across, but in terms of the resources of the Solar System it's a blip. Even allowing for it to be more massive yet, to allow for propulsion systems and reaction mass and shielding and spare stuff and so forth, it's still pretty much of a blip.
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02-02-2018, 10:03 PM | #52 |
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Re: Will the Space Colony children be the Startravelers?
I still think we're all imagining very different sized vehicles. I think launching a habitat to 0.04 C would require a massive gargantuan multistage fusion rocket larger than any previously built THS **** by a huge margin. Possible, but a megaproject.
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02-02-2018, 10:39 PM | #53 |
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Re: Will the Space Colony children be the Startravelers?
It is a megaproject, but it's still not very much on the scale of the resource of a solar system.
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02-03-2018, 07:32 AM | #54 |
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Re: Will the Space Colony children be the Startravelers?
Given that there are megaprojects going on in THS, like the Venus sunshade and terraforming Mars, that dwarf a generation starship, people might not notice the smaller project. People have only so much time and attention. A quiet project out beyond the asteroids might fall between the cracks.
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Re: Will the Space Colony children be the Startravelers?
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We're still short of a plausible motive for Xiao Chu to build a generation ship, or for the Chinese government to order one from them, but they have the means to try.
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02-03-2018, 07:17 PM | #57 |
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Re: Will the Space Colony children be the Startravelers?
If people are stealing the 3He and causing prices to rise, that's a problem. If people are buying the 3He and causing prices to rise, well, other consumers are unhappy, but produces are happy, and the economy as a whole probably shrugs.
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