daniel peterman wrote:
How about building a machine shop in low earth orbit? You could launch
Doug Goncz
up there with his self replicating machining center. Bring the raw
materials in from the moon and use solar power
to smelt the Iron and let the robots take over. Should do away with
cheap Chinese tools within a couple centuries.



There was a big buzz about 20 years ago for a scheme like that. It used
mass drivers on the moon to get an efficient launch system to bring the
ores to the earth orbit where the solar power station was.