XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
      
   In sci.physics Serigo  wrote:   
   > On 10/15/2016 4:35 AM, Fred J. McCall wrote:   
   >> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
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   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
      
   There is no such thing as small when talking about a steel prduction   
   facility carried in a rocket. The smallest excavator John Deere makes   
   weighs about 2 tons.   
      
      
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