From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Oct 19 2000 - 20:14:55 MDT
At 10:43 PM 18/10/00 -0700, Spike wrote:
>Since the moon is only
>a little over a light second away, we could teleoperate machinery
>on the moon more easily than we could operate the same
>machinery on Mars.
Of course.
>build a moon base with machines controlled from Earth,
Yes, obviously.
>build
>a Mars base with machines controlled by a Martian who
>stays inside the lander/hab module.
No. Build a Mars base (after dropping in the pre-fabs ahead of time) with
machines controlled by a Phobotian who stays inside a nice deep hole on the
Martian moon.
Assuming it's not more cost-effective to work as hard as possible on nano
for a decade or so and then do it using NM mints blasted at Mars with a
railgun.
Damien Broderick
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