XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
   From: invalid@invalid.com   
      
   On 10/15/2016 4:35 AM, Fred J. McCall wrote:   
   > jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
   >   
      
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Except to support and grow a colony you need production which means big.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Well, eventually, but you don't have to START big.  You do just what   
   > mankind has done every other time we colonized someplace.  You start   
   > with small facilities and grow them over time, while reducing what you   
   > have to import (again over time).   
      
   is that it ? start small and grow them ?? anything else ?   
      
   your really not into this Mars thing are you.   
      
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