XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
   From: vaughnsimon@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/16/2016 2:36 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
   > So what's the plan for this colony on Mars, ship some number of large   
   > reactors in pieces and assemble on Mars or ship lots of prebuilt small   
   > reactors?   
      
   When help is months or even years away, any single point of failure is   
   your enemy, and redundancy is your friend.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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