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		askvictor 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moss Survives 9 Months in Space Vacuum It's pretty difficult to accelerate hundreds of tons (or even a lot less than that) of stuff out of the gravity well of the Sun. Let's start by terrorising things a bit closer to home (the moon, Mars)

hyghjiyhu 3 months ago [–]

A bootstrap station that can turn asteroids or space dust into probes sounds like a solution for that.

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