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RE: RE: RE: starship-design: YES, we might do it.
Kelly,
> Also there are the practical problems. The space infastructure to do the
> mining would take so much lift and cost to set up, that it would greatly
> outweigh any on orbit damand for resources. For the cost of
> seting it up, you
> could ship years, maybe decades of material up from Earth. But
> by then the
> mine could be obsolete. Worse, without the mines, you'ld never need the
> masive facilities in orbit. So you might wind up seting up a
> mine, that does
> nothing but support itself.
The point at which it all becomes practical ia $100/lb to LEO.
Lee