- #36
Jon Richfield
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Algr said:
Very prudent Al, very prudent. The simple reason that you made no headway is that you had chosen to fight facts. Fighting me would be no problem, because I had nothing to fight about. All I had was facts. Facts have a nasty way of not fighting back. Facts don't care.
Even verry, very simple facts like:
* How long it takes to reach the nearest habitable planet in another solar system
* The logistics of getting there (and back)
* Viable space dwellings do not simply assemble themselves to order
* Space dwellings have functions largely different from planets
* When you start an object moving in space, it takes energy to stop them when they arrive
* More generally, the conservation of momentum and of angular momentum
* Still more generally, the conservation of energy
* Even with solar power, it is not trivial to melt just any old rock to build functional dwellings in space just anywhere
* Not even because Al says it is simple.
Ohhh... and a job lot more. You didn't really get to to first base with any of them did you?
I tell you Al, facts are mean, so mean that I blush to invoke them.
And what did you have?
Sorry about that!
But I'll be around if you return with any facts. Maybe you had better get help. You probably could scare up a friendly space engineer somewhere online.
Cheers,
Jon