Re: SPACE: How hard IS it to get off Earth?

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Nov 10 1999 - 19:19:02 MST


I'd like to endorse Greg Burch's question as being extremely important,
and add this followup:

Is there any form of predesign or preplanning that could be done *now*
which could realistically shorten the amount of time, or decrease the
number of people, needed to convert assembler technology to at least one
self-sustaining settlement in Earth orbit?

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