/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12790839
Oh you're absolutely right, we won't be building them just using starships, but starships will give us the power to develop an orbital/lunar industrial base that after being given some time to grow should be able to get pretty close to autarky. Only then can we start considering crazier and larger scale orbital projects.
>>12790844
I'm a geologist by education and an experimental and theoretical hydrothermal geochemist by practice who focuses on thermodynamic properties, I'd specify what element I've been writing my thesis on but that'd make it really easy to dox me.