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**The Ghost In The Machine**

In sci.physics,

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on 17 Mar 2007 23:39:49 -0700
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On Mar 17, 1:52 pm, The Ghost In The Machine
wrote:

Moving billions of metric tonnes to Venus's L2 point would be
quite a chore.

I had no idea that those Bigelow POOFs were in that class. I'm
impressed.

I have no idea what POOF is in this context; neither does Acronymfinder.

What's giving you the impression of having to relocate such an amount
of mass?

6.5 billion people, of course. Did you not want to save humanity? :-)

A good VL2 outpost or space depot/gateway as situated at Venus L2
might demand at most 100 tonnes to start off with, although a mere
POOF seed of 25 tonnes would likely be more than sufficient.

6.5 billion people * 100 kg/person = 650 million metric tonnes.
Granted, many are women and children (the women tend to be
a little smaller; the children are variable size), so this might
be an overestimate. However, support equipment would be
needed as well -- the air we breathe, recyclers to process the
CO2 back into O2 (with the C going somewhere as well), some
water and recyclers for *that*, sewage processors, and of course
various other things to keep us from going [censored] insane as
we sit behind Venus.

I'm terribly sorry, but what the freaking hell are you talking about?

You couldn't possibly be any further off-base if you tried extra hard.

Are you even posting this silly naysayism into the correct topic?

What exactly is your objective here?

-
Brad Guth

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#191,
"Woman? What woman?"

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