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From: "ronwaldyo "

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-+-  Jay Hailey wrote:
> Add in Replicator technology and POWIE,
> there's pretty much every resource
> issue solved.  The issue then becomes
> "how well equipped are you to take
> advantage of what's there?"

Fusion reactors plus Replicators would give you resources until you run out
of hydrogen, and that isn't very likely for the next several hundred
billion years.

> L Neil Smith speculated about the
> possibility of *destroying* Venus,
> shattering it. That way all the
> material in the sub surface volume
> of it would be available for mining.
> An entire planets worth of mineral
> resources.

I once read a discussion about colonizing the asteroid belt in which
trillions of individuals could live without the use of any resources from
Earth.

-Michael Gray
Star Trek: Dark Horizon
http://hometown.aol.com/darkhrzn91701/main.htm



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