[ExI] Millions of tons to space

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Wed Apr 6 15:30:09 UTC 2011


On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:52:34AM -0700, Dan wrote:
> You speak as if Earth contained most of the rock and metal in the solar system 
> if not the galaxy. There's plenty of rock and metal around to play with.

Most of the metals in the solar system are locked in the inner
planets. There are 4 MT/s of flux to work with, and more if you
use fusables for fuel.

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