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Re:Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: a PLAN f... by sidewndr46 on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:40PM (#32934562)
You have suggested in the same comment that somehow we will have nearly limitless carbon-negative energy but also that the amount of energy to get to Mercury is too high to make the trip worth it. This does not follow from the initial assumption.
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Re:Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: a PLAN f... by adastra22 on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:15AM (#32934729)
Why spend X/kg to get something from mercury when you could spend 1/4 or 1/8 as much to get it from the asteroid belt?
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Re:Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: a PLAN f... by ben_w on Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:30AM (#32935408)
A lot more Mercury than sum of all asteroids. On the scale of "this century" this may only matter for von Neumann probes building a Dyson swarm, but that's not a 0% possibility and you did ask for a reason.
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