Re:Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered
by blacksmith_tb on Thursday November 16, 2017 @03:02PM
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True, though in most fictional accounts the construction mostly happens out of the gravity well - e.g. move an asteroid or iceball into orbit as a counterweight, and start building down from it (and up from the surface).
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Re:Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered
by mrec on Thursday November 16, 2017 @05:40PM
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And how do you get your spacecraft up out of the gravity well and out to the asteroid, so you can move it into orbit and start recycling it into elevator? It sounds suspiciously like you're solving the bootstrap problem by tying strings to your bootstraps and pulling those instead.