Zack Subin

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There are other issues we could get into, but the upshot is this: even a lot of the very basic aspects of rotating space wheels are difficult and dangerous and wildly expensive. While it is literally true that there is enough of the right stuff in space to build these things, it’s kind of like saying we can build solar panels on the Moon. What seems easy to the physicist may not work so well for the engineer, or the investor for that matter.
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
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