"Sander Vesik" wrote in message
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It appears to be bar far better to use solar batteries and artifical
lightning combined with hydroponics.

I could believe this if I could believe that on a square-mile to square-mile
comparison, solar panels and electric lights were comparable in price to
aluminized Mylar and glass.

Remember Titan.

A good point. If it turns out that asteroids just can't provide the amounts
of nitrogen needed, export from Titan might actually help meet the demand.

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Regards,
Mike Combs
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We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the
best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the
Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely.
Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is
"somewhere else entirely."

Gerard O'Neill - "The High Frontier"