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Subject: Space Forge
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jlh1182 26.01.21 - 02:26pm
A metal forge in space, producing unknown alloys and metals for various purposes, drawing resources from dead planets, orbiting other planets or perhaps the moon.. is it possible? * +

jlh1182 26.01.21 - 02:28pm
The earth would be so beautiful if all that crap was gone.. * +

deusexmachina 26.01.21 - 02:29pm
No. * +

3mel 26.01.21 - 02:45pm
you'd need vast amounts of oxygen and power to smelt metal in space. I used to work for a precious metals reclamation company.
the stories I heard about furnaces suggest to me that's it's not something you'd wanna do in space where structures are fragile. * +

jlh1182 26.01.21 - 02:52pm
I've considered even using robots being much closer to the sun using the heat and radiation and also using the atmosphere burn of a planet as part of the process.. some form of ion blaster? * +

jlh1182 26.01.21 - 02:55pm
Collect lots of materials into space and drop it into the atmosphere at particular gradient, while in the process an atmosphere will develop? * +

3mel 26.01.21 - 02:57pm
the closest thing I've heard to any of this is asteroid / comet mining. there are enough minerals floating around the solar system to fill our needs for eons.

one problem is that you'd destroy the value of say diamonds or gold by harvesting them, you'd spend more mining them than they'd eventually be worth. * +

jlh1182 26.01.21 - 03:07pm
I think with this level of activity monetary value becomes a side issue, or will do in time to come.. if we're smart enough we can develop tech that will provide all that we require so long as we provide it with the materials if that makes sense.. when the greedy are no more amongst us.. * +

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