XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics
From: fjmccall@gmail.com
jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>In sci.physics Serigo wrote:
>> On 10/17/2016 8:50 AM, Fred J. McCall wrote:
>>> Serigo wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/16/2016 8:21 PM, Fred J. McCall wrote:
>>>>> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>
>>>>> So about 2% of the cargo lift to Mars of one of Musk's colonization
>>>>> rockets, then. And he's talking about launching around 10 of those
>>>>> per 100 people going to the colony. Hardly a big deal.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> in your imagination, "no big deal"
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's not.
>>
>> yes it is, nothing exists yet, and you say "no big deal"
>>
>> you are dominated by your imagination.
>>
>> I'm sorry you think 2% is a big deal, but it's just not.
>>
>> 2% of nothing, is still nothing.
>
>That is 2% for 1 very tiny landscaper sized excavator.
>
>How many excavators are needed to mine ice, iron, calcium deposits, if
>they exist, aluminum, rock, etc. and dig foundatiions for buildings?
>
>How many trucks to haul the stuff the excavators dig up?
>
>How many trucks to haul the finished products?
>
>How many trucks to haul the waste products away?
>
>How many trucks to haul the building materials?
>
>How many rock crushing machines to crush all the stuff dug up?
>
Now figure out what you can ship with 1,000 tons of cargo for every
hundred people you send...
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