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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Ya, you just have to imagine how to even get started on that. Think of all the different materials and processes needed to make a craft able to survive in space. If the moon does have useful minerals, you'd still need to extract and process them, turn them into usable raw metals, form them into parts...just the materials to make the manufacturing facilities would require an unimaginable amount of energy to get them to orbit or the moon.
More realistically I think we still build the components on Earth, and find a way to extract and process fuels from in situ materials.
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Yeah, true, but its fun to imagine.
An orbital ship yard would be cool. I don't even know what the moon has for minerals.
But I was looking at rail guns which the US Navy is experimenting with and one of the concepts would be its ability to fire things into earths orbit.