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>>3911923
>have you any idea how much our processed food and chemical flavors have impact on our health and evolution as humans?
I have an inkling, they fucking suck, ban that shit.

Also, LFTRs. Economical desalinization of water.
Lab-grown meat will continue to have advances and breakthroughs, meaning we likely won't have to go full vegan.

Just because some things in this world have been working all fucked up doesn't mean we need to scrap it and start living like survivalists. We devise and engineer around these problems for a better tomorrow.

>>3787026
>I heavily doubt that we could construct and launch some magic construction device that gas-ifies rock and that can make of itself for only 5 billion dollars
Well, there are already a few operational plasma gasification waste disposal sites, like one in Taiwan which take in garbage and then sell the materials back for industry uses. It uses a very high current arcing through some crap to heat it up to ~12,000'C where nearly everything breaks down into its elemental gas. I wouldn't say this is undoable to launch to an asteroid but it'll certainly take it's own rocket launch to send it there.

As for these robot things, i was thinking of initially just sending an entire ship full of robot, PGU and railgun circuit-boards. This VASTLY decreases the complexity of the construction operation, because now you've just got to pour metals into molds of wheels/boosters/mining claws/chassis which you then plonk onto robots. You could have some crude infrared and radio communications and detection system which just needs to fracture off some rock and then dump it in the PGU chute. When you have aggregated enough materials, you construct a relatively crude mass driver also out of molds, hook it up the the new solar panels and you have got yourself both asteroid mining AND space-based solar.

I hope you can see a few holes in this plan so I can patch them up.

Asteroid mining for massive support "DO YOU WANT GOLD PLATES AND CUPS?"

Pellegrino's Valkryie for travel

LFTRs for space colony power sources as they are relatively easy to make (compared to fusion, say)

Space, here we come!

>>3552161
I'm actually intending on making it happen. My research project at the moment is on the feasibility and profitability of asteroid mining using current technology.

http://www.rechargebiomedical.com/ta-65.php