Comment by ClumsyPilot
Comment by ClumsyPilot 4 days ago
Exactly, there is free fuel and aluminium just floating by, and we are unable to use them to upgrade our ships or refuel them.
Until we make full use of robotics and 3D printing, there is no point of heading far. And we have all the tools.
Distant stars will not be settled by a fast small ship travelling from earth. They will be settled by a city sized monolith produced by harvesting and smelting an entire small moon
> Distant stars will not be settled by a fast small ship travelling from earth. They will be settled by a city sized monolith produced by harvesting and smelting an entire small moon
I don’t even think you’d need a whole moon unless it was a tiny one. Nonetheless, by the time we send a ship to another star, building these kinds of large self-contained habitats will be old hat.