so, you’re all probably wondering: “what is the third thing?!?!” well, I’ll tell you that it’s…
energy!
taking apart a planet and launching things into space is hard and needs a lot of energy. there is a lot of solar power on mercury, so lets not everything we need.
solar collectors, miners, refiners, and launch equipment.
the solar collectors are going to give us the energy we need to disassemble a planet. to start, we deploy something like one square km of them.they’ll provide the energy to run the miners, which strip mine the surface. then they give it to the refiners, which extract valuable minerals from the stuff the miners collected.to get them into space, we need a creative and efficient solution. rockets are too expensive and take too much planning. instead, we’ll use…
what are we going to use? read pt 3 for the answer!
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