RE: starship-design: Infrastructure in space [was: FTL travel...]

[Marc Hernandez <marc@ias.jb.com>]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, L. Parker wrote:

> Zenon has a point about oil, or more generally petroleum type substances
> So finding oil in space might be profitable after all. Not as a fuel but as
> raw materials to manufacture plastics, etc.

	Is not oil made by compression of large amounts of organic matter?

	I am glad to see this list is still active.  I am interested in
starship design (both real and imaginary) from a simulation point of view.  

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Marc Hernandez