Alpha Centauri anyone?

On 22/10/2012 11:59 AM, Brad Guth wrote:
On Oct 21, 4:38 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 22/10/2012 8:27 AM, Brad Guth wrote:

On Oct 17, 4:09 am, Nun Giver wrote:
Perhaps its got some planets. Apparently a hot one anyway.

If it is a generation ship, I want a hot gal for the
long trip. Could people stay sane on the long trip?
Try raising kids in a small apartment with no play
field?

Anyway, examining the system should be a bit more
possible? Or not?

...........Trig

Since it's not possible to fix this planet Earth,

Does it need fixing?
Very much so, but you and others of your kind seem to care less.


True, there are some major extinctions going on, largly because of our
own actions, but the Earth has had those before. Indeed, we ourselves
exist because of them.
Are you suggesting there were advanced humans as of long before the
last ice age, as having caused the previous ice-age before the last
one to melt?

Er, what?


We seem to have been the last complex species of global biodiversity
invented, intelligent engineered or random happenstance evolved out of
everything else, except somehow our genetic code has lost 99% of all
the really good survival and better quality of improved mortality
stuff somewhere along the line.


Otherwise, the planet seems in pretty good shape to me.

Sylvia.

By all means GW Bush, Dick Cheney, Kissinger and Hitler would all
agree with that.

How many within your immediate family have recently died from
contaminated water, lack of fresh water, various infections or
poisoning along with insufficient food, poor housing or woefully
deficient medical care?

None.


Have you been having to live on the street?

No.

Have you ever begged for food, housing or even transportation?

No.

All of which rather seems to support my view.


I'm certain your local Oligarchs and Rothschilds as living large can't
identifying anything that needs fixing, other than a much bigger
protective mote with dozens more of those cranky and always hungry
alligators protecting their estates.

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Sylvia.

On Oct 21, 6:18*pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 22/10/2012 11:59 AM, Brad Guth wrote:









On Oct 21, 4:38 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 22/10/2012 8:27 AM, Brad Guth wrote:

On Oct 17, 4:09 am, Nun Giver wrote:
Perhaps its got some planets. Apparently a hot one anyway.

If it is a generation ship, I want a hot gal for the
long trip. Could people stay sane on the long trip?
Try raising kids in a small apartment with no play
field?

Anyway, examining the system should be a bit more
possible? Or not?

...........Trig

Since it's not possible to fix this planet Earth,

Does it need fixing?
Very much so, but you and others of your kind seem to care less.

True, there are some major extinctions going on, largly because of our
own actions, but the Earth has had those before. Indeed, we ourselves
exist because of them.
Are you suggesting there were advanced humans as of long before the
last ice age, as having caused the previous ice-age before the last
one to melt?

Er, what?











We seem to have been the last complex species of global biodiversity
invented, intelligent engineered or random happenstance evolved out of
everything else, except somehow our genetic code has lost 99% of all
the really good survival and better quality of improved mortality
stuff somewhere along the line.

Otherwise, the planet seems in pretty good shape to me.

Sylvia.

By all means GW Bush, Dick Cheney, Kissinger and Hitler would all
agree with that.

How many within your immediate family have recently died from
contaminated water, lack of fresh water, various infections or
poisoning along with insufficient food, poor housing or woefully
deficient medical care?

None.



Have you been having to live on the street?

No.



Have you ever begged for food, housing or even transportation?

No.

All of which rather seems to support my view.



I'm certain your local Oligarchs and Rothschilds as living large can't
identifying anything that needs fixing, other than a much bigger
protective mote with dozens more of those cranky and always hungry
alligators protecting their estates.

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* Brad Guth,Brad_Guth,Brad.Guth,BradGuth,BG,Guth Usenet/”Guth Venus”

Sylvia.

Your view that Earth is perfectly fine and dandy as is, is noted.

Obviously you don't bother to read any news or view disturbing images
that objectively prove otherwise.

"David Spain" wrote in message
...

On 10/17/2012 7:09 AM, Nun Giver wrote:
Perhaps its got some planets. Apparently a hot one anyway.

If it is a generation ship, I want a hot gal for the
long trip. Could people stay sane on the long trip?
Try raising kids in a small apartment with no play
field?

Generation ships seem like a huge waste of resources
to simply maintain life support for the journey. One needs to keep
in mind the mission goal. If its long term life aboard a space habitat,
you don't have to send it out of the solar system to accomplish that.
That plus the original 'explorers' will never live to complete the mission
and who's to say their progeny's progeny will care?

Valid points.

However, I'd argue that generation ships could be brute-forced with current
technology.

Clone ships is still decades from today's technology.

Dave




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"Sylvia Else" wrote in message ...

On 22/10/2012 10:42 AM, Fred J. McCall wrote:
Sylvia Else wrote:

On 17/10/2012 10:09 PM, Nun Giver wrote:
Perhaps its got some planets. Apparently a hot one anyway.

If it is a generation ship, I want a hot gal for the
long trip.

Alas, we hot gals don't stay hot for decades.


That's why it's a generation ship. When they hit mid-40s, trade 'em
in for a pair of 22 year olds. :-)


Hmmm.

Does that mean I get to swap my balding pot bellied partner for a young
hunk?

Of course! Since they're going to be trying to hit on those 22yo twins (and
probably failing miserably)


Sylvia.



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On Sunday, October 21, 2012 4:36:54 PM UTC-7, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 17/10/2012 10:09 PM, Nun Giver wrote:

Perhaps its got some planets. Apparently a hot one anyway.



If it is a generation ship, I want a hot gal for the

long trip.



Alas, we hot gals don't stay hot for decades.



Sylvia.

Ah but I'll be long dead and fully recycled by the time
the gal is no longer hot.

Having said that it maybe possible to tinker with the
lifespan such that a 1000 years is but a decade in
aging for in our current condition.

A one long generation ship...............Trig

::: If it is a generation ship, I want a hot gal for the long trip.

:: Alas, we hot gals don't stay hot for decades.

: Nun Giver
: Ah but I'll be long dead and fully recycled by the time the gal is no
: longer hot.
:
: Having said that it maybe possible to tinker with the lifespan such
: that a 1000 years is but a decade in aging for in our current
: condition.

ObSfXref: Sheffield's "Between the Strones of Night".

On Oct 23, 12:16*am, (Wayne Throop) wrote:
::: If it is a generation ship, I want a hot gal for the long trip.

:: Alas, we hot gals don't stay hot for decades.

: Nun Giver
: Ah but I'll be long dead and fully recycled by the time the gal is no
: longer hot.
:
: Having said that it maybe possible to tinker with the lifespan such
: that a 1000 years is but a decade in aging for in our current
: condition.

ObSfXref: Sheffield's "Between the Strones of Night".

current studies indicate a human lifespan of 150 years, because
accidents will occur

Proxima Centauri

Distance 4.24 light years
Mass 0.123 M☉
Radius 0.141 R☉
Luminosity (bolometric) 0.0017 L☉
Surface gravity 172.86 gees
Temperature 3,042 K
Metallicity 162% that of the Sun per unit weight, 20% that of the Sun overall
Age 4.85 billion years
Lifetime 3.45 trillion years
Density 58.6 kg/liter

* * *

A 164 km diameter power satellite is launched into LEO that intercepts sunlight to power an ion rocket engine that boosts the satellite on a hyperbolic trajectory to intercept Jupiter. The satellite executes a gravity boost maneuver to nearly zero out its velocity relative to the Sun. It then falls toward the Sun. It takes up a stable orbit around the sun in an orbital plane that is perpendicular to a line drawn between Proxima Centauri and the Sun.

Operating at 3.5 million km from the Sun, the satellite intercepts 53.1 quadrillion watts of solar energy and generates a multi-spectral laser beam setup using thin disk laser techniques producing a grand total of 18.2 quadrillion watts of laser energy.

Reflected efficiently off a body this laser beam produces 10,000 metric tons of reaction force.

A similar satellite is orbited at the same time and executes the same gravity boost past Jupiter as the first. Excepting this time, the satellite is ejected from the Solar system, moving through the outer solar system toward Proxima Centauri.

An emitter 164 km in diameter efficiently couples with a receiver 164 km in diameter over a distance of 4.24 light years (267,608 AU) at optical wavelengths. A 10,000 tonne payload is accelerated at one gravity over 4,600 AU distance in 137 days achieving a speed of 38.8% light speed in that time.

Every 137 days additional payloads of 10,000 tonnes each may be dispatched to Proxima Centauri using the same setup. An average of 26,600 tonnes per year may be transferred toward Proxima Centauri in this way.

Arriving at Proxima Centauri the light sail breaks into a 164 km wide annulus and a 21.5 km diameter center. The annulus is furled to focus light toward the center, and the center is slowed while the annulus is accelerated.

The mass of the annulus is 8,000 tonnes. The mass of the central reflector is 140 tonnes. The mass of the payload 1,860 tonnes.

Operating at 1/5 th the power level at the start the annulus is accelerated at 1/5th gee whilst the payload is slowed at a full one gee. In 137 days the payload is slowed, entering the Centauri system at planetary speeds whilst 5,300 AU away, the annulus is accelerated 46.5% light speed - striking the surface of Proxima Centauri and vaporizing in the process.

The payload splits into an orbiting section and a collision section. Each navigates using nuclear pulse rocket capabilities with aneutronic pulse units to execute this maneuver. The 140 ton 12.5 km diameter mirror along with 860 ton orbiting section remain in orbit around Proxima Centauri. The 12..5 km diameter reflector operating as a LASER communications device with Earth.

A 1,000 ton collision section heads along the same path, albeit more slowly, than the ill-fated annulus.

A few weeks later the collision section of the payload approaches Proxima Centauri at planetary speeds. A few kilometers above the surface of Proxima the 1,000 ton section detonates a series of generation IV aneutronic micro-fusion devices. The resulting X-rays are channeled through custom designed X-ray holograms surrounding each device with patterned x-rays directed toward the star's surface. Other materials by reacting with the expanding plasma waves are brought to zero speed at zero altitude shortly after the structured x-ray blast arrives.

Hot dense plasmas are a non-linear optical media. As such they exhibit a hysteresis effects and are capable of performing computations. At the conditions found in the body of a red dwarf like Proxima Centauri, x-rays from engineered fusion blasts operate to produce hysteresis effects that accelerate or slow fusion allowing energy amplification. Cool plasma formed from infalling structures quench fusion. When combined with structured plasmas injected into the star's atmosphere with x-ray patterns a self-replicating pattern of fusion reactions takes place and spreads. Like Conway's GAME OF LIFE

http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/

Such patterns are structured to interact with laser pulses from the orbiting section, which monitors and controls the replication process.

Phonon-photon interaction

http://actu.epfl.ch/news/photon-phonon-coupling-2/

is exploited to manipulate materials within the Star's atmosphere. Metals are selected, purified and ejected from the star. The ejecta interacts with star powered laser beams in orbit above the star to cause the ejecta to cool, condense and enter controlled orbit around the star.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_molasses


Self replicating machine cell systems aboard the orbiting section interact with the growing amount of cooled ejected material to create a shell around the star made of ejected metals. This shell operates at 1.29 million km from the center of the star at room temperatures. The surface gravity is 1 gee.

The mass of the shell is equal to half the metals found in Proxima Centauri.. These are 162% more abundant, but given the star's smaller mass, the total mass available is 10% that found in the Sun.

http://periodictable.com/Properties/...Abundance.html

Half of the metals found in Proxima Centauri total 4.4e+26 kilograms. 440 billion trillion tons.

The 3,042 K surface temperature of the star has peak power output at 952.6 nm wavelength according to Wein's displacement law. A portion of this is absorbed and converted to short wave radiation (1 part in 100 million) through a frequency doubling process, to match the solar spectrum. The remainder is focused through openings in the shell and radiated into space. The solar spectrum is reflected back from these openings using dichroic mirrors to illuminate the surface. Moving the solar image formed by these holographic dichroic mirrors, creates day/night across the outside of the large spherical surface. Controlling a small portion of the infrared radiation passing through the openings in a similar way, permits fine control of the weather patterns on this outer surface, which holds its own Earth normal atmosphere.

At 12.2 million km from Proxima Centauri's center a second industrial shell is formed. This shell operates at 11.2 micro-gravities and stays at room temperature despite the fact that all the remaining energy is absorbed and used to power industrial processes. This is the machine shell.

This structure has an inner habitable surface area equal to 20.9 trillion square kilometers. The outer machine surface area is 1.87 quadrillion square kilometers. With 4% of the extracted materials arriving at the inner shell this is 840 tonnes per square meter. The shell is approximately 400 meters thick on average with a 5 km deep troposphere and one gee surface gravity. The structure is maintained by a dynamic system developed by Robert Forward described here;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain

adapted for the construction of a stable shell around stars.

The remaining 96% of the extracted materials forms a shell at the larger distance. 220 tonnes per square meter and is approximately 100 meters thick on average - with no atmosphere and only 1/90th gee surface gravity. This is built the same way.

The habitable surface is 202x the present surface area of Earth. If this surface is inhabited at 500 million per Earth area, 101 billion people would live there. If its inhabited at 5.0 billion per Earth area - 1.01 trillion people would live there.

With 6.54e23 Watts available, each person would have available to them 6.4 trillion watts of power per person with the smaller population and 640 billion watts of power per person with the larger population. With 4.4e23 tonnes available of raw materials, each person would have available to them 4.3 trillion tons of raw materials at the smaller population and 430 billion tonnes of raw materials at the larger population.

To put this power in perspective this is sufficient power to transport 15,000 kg per person per year over interstellar distances.

A 12.9 million km diameter emitter across the outer shell can form 164 km diameter Airy disk up to 333,512 light years from Proxima Centauri. A similar array of sensors provide accurate imaging of stars and planetary systems across the galaxy.

Once set up at Proxima Centauri, which should take less than 15 years, (2028 AD) the system can dispatch similar seeds to all red dwarf stars in the galaxy. 72% of all the stars in the Milky Way, approximately 216 billion such stars, would be converted in the way just described to produce an Earth type environment capable of supporting 216 billion trillion people. It would take 300,000 years of star travel to cross the Milky Way. However, during transit, the people on board would not reproduce. They would be in Stasis.

http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_roth_s...animation.html


With aging control our growth rate rises from 1.2% per year to 2.4% per year - all things being equal.

http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_g...oid_aging.html

With a 2.4% growth rate in human numbers (noting that while in transit humans do not reproduce) it would take until 2124 (ship time) to reach the 101 billion person level and 2221 (ship time) to reach 1.01 trillion.

As mentioned previously it takes 12.6 years after launch to get the probe to Proxima Centauri at the speed indicated and it takes less than 0.4 years to process the star in the ways just described using self-replicating machine systems indicated.

The launchers consist of aneutronic fusion nuclear pulse rockets that project 10,000 tonnes each to 12 km/sec final velocity. With an exhaust velocity of 33,000 km/sec only 3,700 kg of lithium-6 deuteride are needed to place each vessel on course.

Presently humanity produces enough Lithium, so that when Lithium-6 is extracted from 7.5% of the total, 405,000 such ships could be dispatched without any added source of lithium per year. Increasing impulse capacity 4x to allow for navigation at the end of its journey, reduces this number to 101,000 such ships per year.

On average, a person in suspended animation masses 85 kg. With a mechanical counter-pressure space suit, and stacked in blocks, 8 people may be carried per tonne. A 10,000 tonne payload therefore represents the ability to transport 80,000 people from Earth to Proxima Station.

With aging control generally available, and reproductive rate 2.4% per year (ship time), a rate of exodus of 5% per year would see a reduction of 2.6% per year on Earth and a rising of 7.4% per year at Proxima Station - delayed by the time in transit (12.6 years)

So, Starting today with 7.06 billion people we have need of 4,412 launches of 80,000 per launch per year. This requires 1,952 laser satellites to support, orbiting all in the same plane as described above. To dispatch these we have a 6 launch centers located around the Earth launching one fusion rocket every 8 hours.

So, during the first year, two satellites are launched after the first two, one to deploy a laser station near Sol, the other a ship carrying emigres to Proxima station. After the laser stations were fully deployed and the orbit populated, the launch rate would rise to 4,412 ships per year. They would form a star ship train with a 725.3 million km separation between them..

Year Earth Leave Hours Arrive Proxima

2015 7.58 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
2020 5.87 1.71 2.04 0.00 0.00
2025 4.54 1.33 2.64 0.00 0.00
2030 3.51 1.03 3.42 1.71 1.71
2035 2.72 0.79 4.41 1.33 3.65
2040 2.10 0.61 5.70 1.03 5.14
2045 1.63 0.48 7.37 0.79 6.30
2050 1.26 0.37 9.53 0.61 7.19
2055 0.97 0.28 12.31 0.48 7.88
2060 0.75 0.22 15.91 0.37 8.42
2065 0.58 0.17 20.56 0.28 8.83
2070 0.45 0.13 26.58 0.22 9.15

By the 100th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's landing on the moon, 450 million people would remain on Earth and 45 million people would share each Earth sized habitable tile on Proxima station.

Of course from the self-replicating machine system operating to build Proxima Station we have the capacity to send similar 'seeds' to all red dwarf stars across the galaxy.

Using this capacity and technology with no further improvements, we have a shell expanding at 38.8% light speed originating from Proxima Station and populating red dwarf stars throughout the volume of the sphere

YEAR LYEARS STARS PEOPLE Millions

2025 4 2 2,270.0 (3,040.0 in transit)
2050 10 25 287.6
2075 20 201 47.0
2100 30 679 14.9

2125 40 1,611 11.2
2150 50 3,147 10.4
2175 60 5,438 10.9
2200 70 8,635 10.0

By 2100 AD at this rate, 100 million people remain on Earth. By 2200 AD only 600,000 remain of the original population! At this time 9.4 million are arriving from the populated stars as back flow returning home, or visiting their origins.

By the middle of the 24th century 10,000 stars with an ability to support 10 quadrillion people around the red dwarf stars - for periods of 3 trillion years provide a sound basis for human development going forward, despite the fact that only 86.4 billion people are alive at that time, mostly at Proxima Station.

A steady growth in human numbers from 7.06 billion today would reach the carrying capacity of these stations by 2610. Exponential growth is merely a product of our present system of control through scarcity and demand synthesis. Once high living standards are uniformly achieved demand is saturated and exponential growth ends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRp3S8OOeZc

Even so, there are technologies beyond these that will permit humanity to dominate the cosmos - everywhere.

On Dec 11, 9:00Â*pm, wrote:
Proxima Centauri

Distance 4.24 light years
Mass 0.123 M☉
Radius 0.141 R☉
Luminosity (bolometric) 0.0017 L☉
Surface gravity 172.86 gees
Temperature 3,042 K
Metallicity 162% that of the Sun per unit weight, 20% that of the Sun overall
Age 4.85 billion years
Lifetime 3.45 trillion years
Density 58.6 kg/liter

* * *

A 164 km diameter power satellite is launched into LEO that intercepts sunlight to power an ion rocket engine that boosts the satellite on a hyperbolic trajectory to intercept Jupiter. Â*The satellite executes a gravity boost maneuver to nearly zero out its velocity relative to the Sun. Â*It then falls toward the Sun. Â*It takes up a stable orbit around the sun in an orbital plane that is perpendicular to a line drawn between Proxima Centauri and the Sun.

Operating at 3.5 million km from the Sun, the satellite intercepts 53.1 quadrillion watts of solar energy and generates a multi-spectral laser beam setup using thin disk laser techniques producing a grand total of 18.2 quadrillion watts of laser energy.

Reflected efficiently off a body this laser beam produces 10,000 metric tons of reaction force.

A similar satellite is orbited at the same time and executes the same gravity boost past Jupiter as the first. Â*Excepting this time, the satellite is ejected from the Solar system, moving through the outer solar system toward Proxima Centauri.

An emitter 164 km in diameter efficiently couples with a receiver 164 km in diameter over a distance of 4.24 light years (267,608 AU) at optical wavelengths. Â*A 10,000 tonne payload is accelerated at one gravity over 4,600 AU distance in 137 days achieving a speed of 38.8% light speed in that time.

Every 137 days additional payloads of 10,000 tonnes each may be dispatched to Proxima Centauri using the same setup. Â* An average of 26,600 tonnes per year may be transferred toward Proxima Centauri in this way.

Arriving at Proxima Centauri the light sail breaks into a 164 km wide annulus and a 21.5 km diameter center. Â*The annulus is furled to focus light toward the center, and the center is slowed while the annulus is accelerated.

The mass of the annulus is 8,000 tonnes. Â*The mass of the central reflector is 140 tonnes. Â*The mass of the payload 1,860 tonnes.

Operating at 1/5 th the power level at the start the annulus is accelerated at 1/5th gee whilst the payload is slowed at a full one gee. Â*In 137 days the payload is slowed, entering the Centauri system at planetary speeds whilst 5,300 AU away, the annulus is accelerated 46.5% light speed - striking the surface of Proxima Centauri and vaporizing in the process.

The payload splits into an orbiting section and a collision section. Â*Each navigates using nuclear pulse rocket capabilities with aneutronic pulse units to execute this maneuver. Â*The 140 ton 12.5 km diameter mirror along with 860 ton orbiting section remain in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Â*The 12.5 km diameter reflector operating as a LASER communications device with Earth.

A 1,000 ton collision section heads along the same path, albeit more slowly, than the ill-fated annulus.

A few weeks later the collision section of the payload approaches Proxima Centauri at planetary speeds. Â*A few kilometers above the surface of Proxima the 1,000 ton section detonates a series of generation IV aneutronic micro-fusion devices. Â*The resulting X-rays are channeled through custom designed X-ray holograms surrounding each device with patterned x-rays directed toward the star's surface. Â*Other materials by reacting with the expanding plasma waves are brought to zero speed at zero altitude shortly after the structured x-ray blast arrives.

Hot dense plasmas are a non-linear optical media. Â*As such they exhibit a hysteresis effects and are capable of performing computations. Â*At the conditions found in the body of a red dwarf like Proxima Centauri, x-rays from engineered fusion blasts operate to produce hysteresis effects that accelerate or slow fusion allowing energy amplification. Â*Cool plasma formed from infalling structures quench fusion. Â*When combined with structured plasmas injected into the star's atmosphere with x-ray patterns a self-replicating pattern of fusion reactions takes place and spreads. Â*Like Conway's GAME OF LIFE

http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/

Such patterns are structured to interact with laser pulses from the orbiting section, which monitors and controls the replication process.

Phonon-photon interaction

http://actu.epfl.ch/news/photon-phonon-coupling-2/

is exploited to manipulate materials within the Star's atmosphere. Â*Metals are selected, purified and ejected from the star. Â*The ejecta interacts with star powered laser beams in orbit above the star to cause the ejecta to cool, condense and enter controlled orbit around the star.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_molasses

Self replicating machine cell systems aboard the orbiting section interact with the growing amount of cooled ejected material to create a shell around the star made of ejected metals. Â*This shell operates at 1.29 million km from the center of the star at room temperatures. Â*The surface gravity is 1 gee.

The mass of the shell is equal to half the metals found in Proxima Centauri. Â*These are 162% more abundant, but given the star's smaller mass, the total mass available is 10% that found in the Sun.

http://periodictable.com/Properties/...Abundance.html

Half of the metals found in Proxima Centauri total 4.4e+26 kilograms. Â*440 billion trillion tons.

The 3,042 K surface temperature of the star has peak power output at 952.6 nm wavelength according to Wein's displacement law. Â*A portion of this is absorbed and converted to short wave radiation (1 part in 100 million) through a frequency doubling process, to match the solar spectrum. Â*The remainder is focused through openings in the shell and radiated into space. Â*The solar spectrum is reflected back from these openings using dichroic mirrors to illuminate the surface. Â*Moving the solar image formed by these holographic dichroic mirrors, creates day/night across the outside of the large spherical surface. Â*Controlling a small portion of the infrared radiation passing through the openings in a similar way, permits fine control of the weather patterns on this outer surface, which holds its own Earth normal atmosphere.

At 12.2 million km from Proxima Centauri's center a second industrial shell is formed. Â*This shell operates at 11.2 micro-gravities and stays at room temperature despite the fact that all the remaining energy is absorbed and used to power industrial processes. Â*This is the machine shell.

This structure has an inner habitable surface area equal to 20.9 trillion square kilometers. Â*The outer machine surface area is 1.87 quadrillion square kilometers. Â*With 4% of the extracted materials arriving at the inner shell this is 840 tonnes per square meter. Â*The shell is approximately 400 meters thick on average with a 5 km deep troposphere and one gee surface gravity. Â*The structure is maintained by a dynamic system developed by Robert Forward described here;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain

adapted for the construction of a stable shell around stars.

The remaining 96% of the extracted materials forms a shell at the larger distance. Â*220 tonnes per square meter and is approximately 100 meters thick on average - with no atmosphere and only 1/90th gee surface gravity. Â*This is built the same way.

The habitable surface is 202x the present surface area of Earth. Â*If this surface is inhabited at 500 million per Earth area, 101 billion people would live there. Â*If its inhabited at 5.0 billion per Earth area - 1.01 trillion people would live there.

With 6.54e23 Watts available, each person would have available to them 6.4 trillion watts of power per person with the smaller population and 640 billion watts of power per person with the larger population. Â*With 4.4e23 tonnes available of raw materials, each person would have available to them 4.3 trillion tons of raw materials at the smaller population and 430 billion tonnes of raw materials at the larger population.

To put this power in perspective this is sufficient power to transport 15,000 kg per person per year over interstellar distances.

A 12.9 million km diameter emitter across the outer shell can form 164 km diameter Airy disk up to 333,512 light years from Proxima Centauri. Â*A similar array of sensors provide accurate imaging of stars and planetary systems across the galaxy.

Once set up at Proxima Centauri, which should take less than 15 years, (2028 AD) the system can dispatch similar seeds to all red dwarf stars in the galaxy. Â*72% of all the stars in the Milky Way, approximately 216 billion such stars, would be converted in the way just described to produce an Earth type environment capable of supporting 216 billion trillion people. Â*It would take 300,000 years of star travel to cross the Milky Way. Â*However, during transit, the people on board would not reproduce. Â*They would be in Stasis.

http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_roth_s...animation.html

With aging control our growth rate rises from 1.2% per year to 2.4% per year - all things being equal.

http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_g...oid_aging.html

With a 2.4% growth rate in human numbers (noting that while in transit humans do not reproduce) it would take until 2124 (ship time) to reach the 101 billion person level and 2221 (ship time) to reach 1.01 trillion.

As mentioned previously it takes 12.6 years after launch to get the probe to Proxima Centauri at the speed indicated and it takes less than 0.4 years to process the star in the ways just described using self-replicating machine systems indicated.

The launchers consist of aneutronic fusion nuclear pulse rockets that project 10,000 tonnes each to 12 km/sec final velocity. Â*With an exhaust velocity of 33,000 km/sec only 3,700 kg of lithium-6 deuteride are needed to place each vessel on course.

Presently humanity produces enough Lithium, so that when Lithium-6 is extracted from 7.5% of the total, 405,000 such ships could be dispatched without any added source of lithium per year. Â*Increasing impulse capacity 4x to allow for navigation at the end of its journey, reduces this number to 101,000 such ships per year.

On average, a person in suspended animation masses 85 kg. Â*With a mechanical counter-pressure space suit, and stacked in blocks, 8 people may be carried per tonne. Â*A 10,000 tonne payload therefore represents the ability to transport 80,000 people from Earth to Proxima Station.

With aging control generally available, and reproductive rate 2.4% per year (ship time), a rate of exodus of 5% per year would see a reduction of 2.6% per year on Earth and a rising of 7.4% per year at Proxima Station - delayed by the time in transit (12.6 years)

So, Starting today with 7.06 billion people we have need of 4,412 launches of 80,000 per launch per year. Â*This requires 1,952 laser satellites to support, orbiting all in the same plane as described above. Â*To dispatch these we have a 6 launch centers located around the Earth launching one fusion rocket every 8 hours.

So, during the first year, two satellites are launched after the first two, one to deploy a laser station near Sol, the other a ship carrying emigres to Proxima station. Â*After the laser stations were fully deployed and the orbit populated, the launch rate would rise to 4,412 ships per year. Â*They would form a star ship train with a 725.3 million km separation between them.

Year Â* Â*Earth Â* Leave Â* Hours Â* Arrive Â*Proxima

2015 Â* Â*7.58 Â* Â*0.00 Â* Â* 0.00 Â* 0.00 Â* Â*0.00
2020 Â* Â*5.87 Â* Â*1.71 Â* Â* 2.04 Â* 0.00 Â* Â*0.00
2025 Â* Â*4.54 Â* Â*1.33 Â* Â* 2.64 Â* 0.00 Â* Â*0.00
2030 Â* Â*3.51 Â* Â*1.03 Â* Â* 3.42 Â* 1.71 Â* Â*1.71
2035 Â* Â*2.72 Â* Â*0.79 Â* Â* 4.41 Â* 1.33 Â* Â*3.65
2040 Â* Â*2.10 Â* Â*0.61 Â* Â* 5.70 Â* 1.03 Â* Â*5.14
2045 Â* Â*1.63 Â* Â*0.48 Â* Â* 7.37 Â* 0.79 Â* Â*6.30
2050 Â* Â*1.26 Â* Â*0.37 Â* Â* 9.53 Â* 0.61 Â* Â*7.19
2055 Â* Â*0.97 Â* Â*0.28 Â* Â*12.31 Â* 0.48 Â* Â*7.88
2060 Â* Â*0.75 Â* Â*0.22 Â* Â*15.91 Â* 0.37 Â* Â*8.42
2065 Â* Â*0.58 Â* Â*0.17 Â* Â*20.56 Â* 0.28 Â* Â*8.83
2070 Â* Â*0.45 Â* Â*0.13 Â* Â*26.58 Â* 0.22 Â* Â*9.15

By the 100th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's landing on the moon, 450 million people would remain on Earth and 45 million people would share each Earth sized habitable tile on Proxima station.

Of course from the self-replicating machine system operating to build Proxima Station we have the capacity to send similar 'seeds' to all red dwarf stars across the galaxy.

Using this capacity and technology with no further improvements, we have a shell expanding at 38.8% light speed originating from Proxima Station and populating red dwarf stars throughout the volume of the sphere

YEAR Â* Â*LYEARS Â*STARS Â* PEOPLE Millions

2025 Â* Â*4 Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* 2 Â* 2,270.0 Â*(3,040.0 in transit)
2050 Â* Â*10 Â* Â* Â* Â* 25 Â* Â* 287.6
2075 Â* Â*20 Â* Â* Â* Â*201 Â* Â* Â*47.0
2100 Â* Â*30 Â* Â* Â* Â*679 Â* Â* Â*14.9

2125 Â* Â*40 Â* Â* Â*1,611 Â* Â* Â*11.2
2150 Â* Â*50 Â* Â* Â*3,147 Â* Â* Â*10.4
2175 Â* Â*60 Â* Â* Â*5,438 Â* Â* Â*10.9
2200 Â* Â*70 Â* Â* Â*8,635 Â* Â* Â*10.0

By 2100 AD at this rate, 100 million people remain on Earth. Â*By 2200 AD only 600,000 remain of the original population! Â*At this time 9.4 million are arriving from the populated stars as back flow returning home, or visiting their origins.

By the middle of the 24th century 10,000 stars with an ability to support 10 quadrillion people around the red dwarf stars - for periods of 3 trillion years provide a sound basis for human development going forward, despite the fact that only 86.4 billion people are alive at that time, mostly at Proxima Station.

A steady growth in human numbers from 7.06 billion today would reach the carrying capacity of these stations by 2610. Â*Exponential growth is merely a product of our present system of control through scarcity and demand synthesis. Â*Once high living standards are uniformly achieved demand is saturated and exponential growth ends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRp3S8OOeZc

Even so, there are technologies beyond these that will permit humanity to dominate the cosmos - everywhere.

But we can't even exploit our moon or even utilize its L1, much less
the extremely nearby planet Venus and its cool L2. So realistically,
how the heck is any sort of exoplanet going to become accessible and
at a thousand times greater cost?

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On Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:13:47 AM UTC-5, Brad Guth wrote:
On Dec 11, 9:00Â*pm, wrote:

Proxima Centauri



Distance 4.24 light years

Mass 0.123 M☉

Radius 0.141 R☉

Luminosity (bolometric) 0.0017 L☉

Surface gravity 172.86 gees

Temperature 3,042 K

Metallicity 162% that of the Sun per unit weight, 20% that of the Sun overall

Age 4.85 billion years

Lifetime 3.45 trillion years

Density 58.6 kg/liter



* * *



A 164 km diameter power satellite is launched into LEO that intercepts sunlight to power an ion rocket engine that boosts the satellite on a hyperbolic trajectory to intercept Jupiter. Â*The satellite executes a gravity boost maneuver to nearly zero out its velocity relative to the Sun. Â*It then falls toward the Sun. Â*It takes up a stable orbit around the sun in an orbital plane that is perpendicular to a line drawn between Proxima Centauri and the Sun.



Operating at 3.5 million km from the Sun, the satellite intercepts 53.1 quadrillion watts of solar energy and generates a multi-spectral laser beam setup using thin disk laser techniques producing a grand total of 18.2 quadrillion watts of laser energy.



Reflected efficiently off a body this laser beam produces 10,000 metric tons of reaction force.



A similar satellite is orbited at the same time and executes the same gravity boost past Jupiter as the first. Â*Excepting this time, the satellite is ejected from the Solar system, moving through the outer solar system toward Proxima Centauri.



An emitter 164 km in diameter efficiently couples with a receiver 164 km in diameter over a distance of 4.24 light years (267,608 AU) at optical wavelengths. Â*A 10,000 tonne payload is accelerated at one gravity over 4,600 AU distance in 137 days achieving a speed of 38.8% light speed in that time.



Every 137 days additional payloads of 10,000 tonnes each may be dispatched to Proxima Centauri using the same setup. Â* An average of 26,600 tonnes per year may be transferred toward Proxima Centauri in this way.



Arriving at Proxima Centauri the light sail breaks into a 164 km wide annulus and a 21.5 km diameter center. Â*The annulus is furled to focus light toward the center, and the center is slowed while the annulus is accelerated.



The mass of the annulus is 8,000 tonnes. Â*The mass of the central reflector is 140 tonnes. Â*The mass of the payload 1,860 tonnes.



Operating at 1/5 th the power level at the start the annulus is accelerated at 1/5th gee whilst the payload is slowed at a full one gee. Â*In 137 days the payload is slowed, entering the Centauri system at planetary speeds whilst 5,300 AU away, the annulus is accelerated 46.5% light speed - striking the surface of Proxima Centauri and vaporizing in the process.



The payload splits into an orbiting section and a collision section. Â*Each navigates using nuclear pulse rocket capabilities with aneutronic pulse units to execute this maneuver. Â*The 140 ton 12.5 km diameter mirror along with 860 ton orbiting section remain in orbit around Proxima Centauri. Â*The 12.5 km diameter reflector operating as a LASER communications device with Earth.



A 1,000 ton collision section heads along the same path, albeit more slowly, than the ill-fated annulus.



A few weeks later the collision section of the payload approaches Proxima Centauri at planetary speeds. Â*A few kilometers above the surface of Proxima the 1,000 ton section detonates a series of generation IV aneutronic micro-fusion devices. Â*The resulting X-rays are channeled through custom designed X-ray holograms surrounding each device with patterned x-rays directed toward the star's surface. Â*Other materials by reacting with the expanding plasma waves are brought to zero speed at zero altitude shortly after the structured x-ray blast arrives.



Hot dense plasmas are a non-linear optical media. Â*As such they exhibit a hysteresis effects and are capable of performing computations. Â*At the conditions found in the body of a red dwarf like Proxima Centauri, x-rays from engineered fusion blasts operate to produce hysteresis effects that accelerate or slow fusion allowing energy amplification. Â*Cool plasma formed from infalling structures quench fusion. Â*When combined with structured plasmas injected into the star's atmosphere with x-ray patterns a self-replicating pattern of fusion reactions takes place and spreads.. Â*Like Conway's GAME OF LIFE



http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/



Such patterns are structured to interact with laser pulses from the orbiting section, which monitors and controls the replication process.



Phonon-photon interaction



http://actu.epfl.ch/news/photon-phonon-coupling-2/



is exploited to manipulate materials within the Star's atmosphere. Â*Metals are selected, purified and ejected from the star. Â*The ejecta interacts with star powered laser beams in orbit above the star to cause the ejecta to cool, condense and enter controlled orbit around the star.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_molasses



Self replicating machine cell systems aboard the orbiting section interact with the growing amount of cooled ejected material to create a shell around the star made of ejected metals. Â*This shell operates at 1.29 million km from the center of the star at room temperatures. Â*The surface gravity is 1 gee.



The mass of the shell is equal to half the metals found in Proxima Centauri. Â*These are 162% more abundant, but given the star's smaller mass, the total mass available is 10% that found in the Sun.



http://periodictable.com/Properties/...Abundance.html



Half of the metals found in Proxima Centauri total 4.4e+26 kilograms. Â*440 billion trillion tons.



The 3,042 K surface temperature of the star has peak power output at 952.6 nm wavelength according to Wein's displacement law. Â*A portion of this is absorbed and converted to short wave radiation (1 part in 100 million) through a frequency doubling process, to match the solar spectrum. Â*The remainder is focused through openings in the shell and radiated into space. Â*The solar spectrum is reflected back from these openings using dichroic mirrors to illuminate the surface. Â*Moving the solar image formed by these holographic dichroic mirrors, creates day/night across the outside of the large spherical surface. Â*Controlling a small portion of the infrared radiation passing through the openings in a similar way, permits fine control of the weather patterns on this outer surface, which holds its own Earth normal atmosphere.



At 12.2 million km from Proxima Centauri's center a second industrial shell is formed. Â*This shell operates at 11.2 micro-gravities and stays at room temperature despite the fact that all the remaining energy is absorbed and used to power industrial processes. Â*This is the machine shell.



This structure has an inner habitable surface area equal to 20.9 trillion square kilometers. Â*The outer machine surface area is 1.87 quadrillion square kilometers. Â*With 4% of the extracted materials arriving at the inner shell this is 840 tonnes per square meter. Â*The shell is approximately 400 meters thick on average with a 5 km deep troposphere and one gee surface gravity. Â*The structure is maintained by a dynamic system developed by Robert Forward described here;



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain



adapted for the construction of a stable shell around stars.



The remaining 96% of the extracted materials forms a shell at the larger distance. Â*220 tonnes per square meter and is approximately 100 meters thick on average - with no atmosphere and only 1/90th gee surface gravity. Â*This is built the same way.



The habitable surface is 202x the present surface area of Earth. Â*If this surface is inhabited at 500 million per Earth area, 101 billion people would live there. Â*If its inhabited at 5.0 billion per Earth area - 1.01 trillion people would live there.



With 6.54e23 Watts available, each person would have available to them 6.4 trillion watts of power per person with the smaller population and 640 billion watts of power per person with the larger population. Â*With 4.4e23 tonnes available of raw materials, each person would have available to them 4.3 trillion tons of raw materials at the smaller population and 430 billion tonnes of raw materials at the larger population.



To put this power in perspective this is sufficient power to transport 15,000 kg per person per year over interstellar distances.



A 12.9 million km diameter emitter across the outer shell can form 164 km diameter Airy disk up to 333,512 light years from Proxima Centauri. Â*A similar array of sensors provide accurate imaging of stars and planetary systems across the galaxy.



Once set up at Proxima Centauri, which should take less than 15 years, (2028 AD) the system can dispatch similar seeds to all red dwarf stars in the galaxy. Â*72% of all the stars in the Milky Way, approximately 216 billion such stars, would be converted in the way just described to produce an Earth type environment capable of supporting 216 billion trillion people.. Â*It would take 300,000 years of star travel to cross the Milky Way. Â*However, during transit, the people on board would not reproduce. Â*They would be in Stasis.



http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_roth_s...animation.html



With aging control our growth rate rises from 1.2% per year to 2.4% per year - all things being equal.



http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_g...oid_aging.html



With a 2.4% growth rate in human numbers (noting that while in transit humans do not reproduce) it would take until 2124 (ship time) to reach the 101 billion person level and 2221 (ship time) to reach 1.01 trillion.



As mentioned previously it takes 12.6 years after launch to get the probe to Proxima Centauri at the speed indicated and it takes less than 0.4 years to process the star in the ways just described using self-replicating machine systems indicated.



The launchers consist of aneutronic fusion nuclear pulse rockets that project 10,000 tonnes each to 12 km/sec final velocity. Â*With an exhaust velocity of 33,000 km/sec only 3,700 kg of lithium-6 deuteride are needed to place each vessel on course.



Presently humanity produces enough Lithium, so that when Lithium-6 is extracted from 7.5% of the total, 405,000 such ships could be dispatched without any added source of lithium per year. Â*Increasing impulse capacity 4x to allow for navigation at the end of its journey, reduces this number to 101,000 such ships per year.



On average, a person in suspended animation masses 85 kg. Â*With a mechanical counter-pressure space suit, and stacked in blocks, 8 people may be carried per tonne. Â*A 10,000 tonne payload therefore represents the ability to transport 80,000 people from Earth to Proxima Station.



With aging control generally available, and reproductive rate 2.4% per year (ship time), a rate of exodus of 5% per year would see a reduction of 2.6% per year on Earth and a rising of 7.4% per year at Proxima Station - delayed by the time in transit (12.6 years)



So, Starting today with 7.06 billion people we have need of 4,412 launches of 80,000 per launch per year. Â*This requires 1,952 laser satellites to support, orbiting all in the same plane as described above. Â*To dispatch these we have a 6 launch centers located around the Earth launching one fusion rocket every 8 hours.



So, during the first year, two satellites are launched after the first two, one to deploy a laser station near Sol, the other a ship carrying emigres to Proxima station. Â*After the laser stations were fully deployed and the orbit populated, the launch rate would rise to 4,412 ships per year.. Â*They would form a star ship train with a 725.3 million km separation between them.



Year Â* Â*Earth Â* Leave Â* Hours Â* Arrive Â*Proxima



2015 Â* Â*7.58 Â* Â*0.00 Â* Â* 0.00 Â* 0.00 Â* Â*0.00

2020 Â* Â*5.87 Â* Â*1.71 Â* Â* 2.04 Â* 0.00 Â* Â*0.00

2025 Â* Â*4.54 Â* Â*1.33 Â* Â* 2.64 Â* 0.00 Â* Â*0.00

2030 Â* Â*3.51 Â* Â*1.03 Â* Â* 3.42 Â* 1.71 Â* Â*1.71

2035 Â* Â*2.72 Â* Â*0.79 Â* Â* 4.41 Â* 1.33 Â* Â*3.65

2040 Â* Â*2.10 Â* Â*0.61 Â* Â* 5.70 Â* 1.03 Â* Â*5.14

2045 Â* Â*1.63 Â* Â*0.48 Â* Â* 7.37 Â* 0.79 Â* Â*6.30

2050 Â* Â*1.26 Â* Â*0.37 Â* Â* 9.53 Â* 0.61 Â* Â*7.19

2055 Â* Â*0.97 Â* Â*0.28 Â* Â*12.31 Â* 0.48 Â* Â*7.88

2060 Â* Â*0.75 Â* Â*0.22 Â* Â*15.91 Â* 0.37 Â* Â*8.42

2065 Â* Â*0.58 Â* Â*0.17 Â* Â*20.56 Â* 0.28 Â* Â*8.83

2070 Â* Â*0.45 Â* Â*0.13 Â* Â*26.58 Â* 0.22 Â* Â*9.15



By the 100th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's landing on the moon, 450 million people would remain on Earth and 45 million people would share each Earth sized habitable tile on Proxima station.



Of course from the self-replicating machine system operating to build Proxima Station we have the capacity to send similar 'seeds' to all red dwarf stars across the galaxy.



Using this capacity and technology with no further improvements, we have a shell expanding at 38.8% light speed originating from Proxima Station and populating red dwarf stars throughout the volume of the sphere



YEAR Â* Â*LYEARS Â*STARS Â* PEOPLE Millions



2025 Â* Â*4 Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* 2 Â* 2,270.0 Â*(3,040.0 in transit)

2050 Â* Â*10 Â* Â* Â* Â* 25 Â* Â* 287.6

2075 Â* Â*20 Â* Â* Â* Â*201 Â* Â* Â*47.0

2100 Â* Â*30 Â* Â* Â* Â*679 Â* Â* Â*14.9



2125 Â* Â*40 Â* Â* Â*1,611 Â* Â* Â*11.2

2150 Â* Â*50 Â* Â* Â*3,147 Â* Â* Â*10.4

2175 Â* Â*60 Â* Â* Â*5,438 Â* Â* Â*10.9

2200 Â* Â*70 Â* Â* Â*8,635 Â* Â* Â*10.0



By 2100 AD at this rate, 100 million people remain on Earth. Â*By 2200 AD only 600,000 remain of the original population! Â*At this time 9..4 million are arriving from the populated stars as back flow returning home, or visiting their origins.



By the middle of the 24th century 10,000 stars with an ability to support 10 quadrillion people around the red dwarf stars - for periods of 3 trillion years provide a sound basis for human development going forward, despite the fact that only 86.4 billion people are alive at that time, mostly at Proxima Station.



A steady growth in human numbers from 7.06 billion today would reach the carrying capacity of these stations by 2610. Â*Exponential growth is merely a product of our present system of control through scarcity and demand synthesis. Â*Once high living standards are uniformly achieved demand is saturated and exponential growth ends.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRp3S8OOeZc



Even so, there are technologies beyond these that will permit humanity to dominate the cosmos - everywhere.



But we can't even exploit our moon or even utilize its L1, much less

the extremely nearby planet Venus and its cool L2. So realistically,

how the heck is any sort of exoplanet going to become accessible and

at a thousand times greater cost?



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Well, this *is* a thread on Alpha Centauri. But, let's look at the moon. According to the Lunar and Planetary Institute from NASA Astrophysics Data System

LUNAR MINING APPARATUS

Si 20.2%
Al 7.3%
Ti 4.1%
Fe 12.5%
Mg 4.6%
Ca 9.6%
Na 0.33%
K 0.11%
Mn 0.16%
Cr 0.20%
Zr 0.039%
Ni 0.0078%
P 0.14%

Li 6 ppm
Be 4 ppm
N 110 ppm
F 66 ppm
Cl 350 ppm
Sc 60 ppm
Co 40 ppm
Cu 9.9 ppm
Zn 22 ppm
Ga 4.6 ppm
Ge 0.7 ppm
As 0.07 ppm
Se 0.2 ppm
Br 0.2 ppm
Rb 4.4 ppm
Sr 200 ppm
Y 150 ppm
Nb 33 ppm
Mo 0.7 ppm
Pd 0.04 ppm
Ag 0.1 ppm
Th 2.3 ppm
U 0.48 ppm
Pb 6 ppm
W 0.25 ppm

Now Lithium 6 is about 3% of the Lithium 7 in the lunar soil. That means 0..18 ppm of the lunar soil is Lithium-6. This means that each cubic meter of lunar soil contains 432 milligrams of Lithium-6. 432 milligrams of lithium-6 plus 144 milligrams of deuterium release 259.2 GJ using the JETTER CYCLE. This is an amount of energy that is the equivalent of burning 42.5 barrels of crude oil for the lithium contained in each cubic meter of lunar soil. It takes about 2.5 barrels of oil of heat energy to ionize a cubic meter of lunar soil and separate it into its component parts using time-of-flight mass spectrometry techniques in vacuum.

A fusion powered 200 kg payload that digs 100 mm into the lunar soil across a 1.2 m wide path and does so at a 1 km per hour (277 mm/sec) rate processes 1 million cubic meters of soil per year. This is equivalent to 40 million barrels of oil. An oil well producing 115,200 barrels per day!

In a year a disk 3.7 km in diameter has been processed by the machine.

In physical terms this is equal to 576 kg of lithium-6 deuteride each year.

Eight hundred such units would provide the same amount of energy as the world's oil wells do today - with none of the pollution effects.

Since significant quantities of other materials are separated from the lunar soil along with the Lithium-6 and deuterium, its possible to return those materials as well as the Lithium-6 Deuteride. Iron, Titanium, Aluminum, in massive quantities.

Using atomic scale additive techniques of controlled plasma vapor deposition provides a means to manufacture copies of the original digger at the rate of one doubling period per hour.

As the digger spirals outward by the time it completes 16 turns it has built a copy of itself. This daughter is deployed and operates along side the original increasing the digger width from 1.2 meter to 2.4 meters.

In another hour the disk is 67.7 meters in diameter after another six turns.. There are now two daughters, one from each operating unit. These two join the two on the outside of the one already working, and form a digger width of 4.8 meters.

DIAM (m) TURNS WIDTH BPD EQUIV. UNITS
39.09 16.29 1.2 115,000 1
67.70 5.96 2.4 230,000 2
103.42 3.72 4.8 460,000 4
151.39 2.50 9.6 920,000 8
217.63 1.73 19.2 1,840,000 16
310.25 1.21 38.4 3,680,000 32
440.50 0.85 76.8 7,360,000 64
624.19 0.60 153.6 14,720,000 128
883.60 0.42 307.2 29,440,000 256
1,250.21 0.30 614.4 58,880,000 512
1,768.50 0.21 1,228.8 117,760,000 1024

At the end of 10 hours the first machine has grown to 1024 machines and they are producing over 117 million bpd energy equivalent. More than the world currently uses.

This along with 2.58 million metric tons of iron, aluminum, titanium, per year and another 0.5 million tons of other valued materials.

These materials return largely in the form of Mr. Fusion type power appliances complete with a variety of end user appliances, motors, ovens, furnaces, air conditioners, chemical processing units, etc., are fabricated and returned to end users on Earth in response to radio/laser commands from Earth.

http://dvice.com/pics/mr_fusion.jpg

At this rate it takes 3,500 years to plow through the entire surface of the moon to a depth of 0.1 meter. The process repeats another 0.1 meter down for the next cycle.

Designs and commands can also be received by the system to produce updated products, including diggers.

Three million tons returned from the moon each year must be ejected from the moon at 2.5 km/sec. Using oxygen as a working fluid and ejecting it at 10.0 km/sec means that 22.2% must be oxygen taken from lunar soil. Another 7.8% are rockets and vehicle structure. This leaves 70% payload. So we're talking for 3 million tons per year 951,143 tons of oxygen per year and 334,285 tons of rocketry per year. To energize the oxygen to 10 km/sec requires the expenditure of 21,351 bpd equivalent of energy. Recall the system here is producing 117,760,000 bpd of energy - so this is definitely in the rounding error - a minor energy requirement.

The original 'seed' lander that massed 200 kg would have to depart Earth at a speed of 10.9 km/sec and then land on the moon by slowing another 2.5 km/sec. Another 1.6 km/sec in gravity drag and air drag losses are required. This is a total of 15 km/sec delta vee. With a 10.0 km/sec exhaust speed energized by fusion pulse units that power the lander once its down - and configured to heat air with alpha particles for the first 5 km/sec exhaust speed, and then heat stored propellant - water - for the remaining delta vee - after dropping the air intakes and deploying the landing gear upon leaving the Earth's atmosphere - the vehicle requires

63.22% - stored propellant (505.76 kg - 505.76 liters)
11.78% - structure (94.24 kg)
25.00% - payload (200 kg)

The total energy required to propel the system to the moon is only a few milligrams of lithium-6 deuteride. The system takes four days to transit to the moon and land there. It takes 10 hours after landing to return lithium-6 deuteride power units at a rate exceeding all conventional energy use on the planet. Half a kilo of steel, aluminum and titanium are returned per person per year in the form of consumer appliances that make use of the fuel to make usable forms of energy.

Rates of production can be adjusted to meet the needs of everyone. Expanding to 1,000 times this rate requires only 10 more hours of doubling.

The systems could also self-reproduce on Earth and provide a wide range of products and services on demand using terrestrial resources.