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

[Zenon Kulpa <zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl>]

> From owner-starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu Thu Apr 27 02:01:03 2000
> From: KellySt@aol.com
> 
> In a message dated 4/26/00 7:45:04 AM, zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl writes:
> >> 
> >> >They will be in space too - but will not use it for burning...
> >> 
> >> What else do you expect to be consuming all that oil?
> >> 
> >Plastics. There is no other resource in space that can be used
> >to produce them...
> 
> Billinos of metric tons?  
>
Who said we _must_ use all of these billions of tons
in one moment?

> And what do you do with the rest of the crude you 
> distile out to make the plastic feed stock.
> 
Simply left it in the place it was mined from...

-- Zenon Kulpa