>Cheaper access to space will mean the future development of RP technologies
>and replicators/fabbers to use native materials in constructing building
>materials and other objects for use in space and in colonies on other
>planets.
>
>-Glenn Whiteside
Glenn,
What you say is absolutely true. At the 1996 Austin SFF conference, I
collaborated with a NASA scintist and a retired NASA engineer on a paper
about this very subject. It was called "Using Fabricators to Reduce Space
Transportation Costs" and can be found on the Web at
http://www.ennex.com/people/Marshall/papers/SpaceFab/index.htm.
Marshall
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