[ExI] Why no space colonies or lunar bases? was Mooon.

Kelly Anderson kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Sun Jul 24 16:14:24 UTC 2011


2011/7/24 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>:
> On 23 July 2011 19:35, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2011/7/23 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>:
> But the truth is that the Moon might be OK for space elevators, Jupiterians
> would not even be tempted to go the way of chemical rockets, Earthlings
> might find itself right on the delusional edge that the latter might be OK
> to bootstrap ourselves out of our gravitational well and waste too much time
> and resources playing with them.

What technology might Jupiterians be tempted to use? I mean, what
technology would even work to escape that gravity well? I hadn't ever
thought about the problem before... interesting to think about.

-Kelly



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