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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kilmore" data-source="post: 480161" data-attributes="member: 5226">There are serious problems across the boards here.  The first one is that human beings aren't well suited to go up into space.  The pressure problem's already been brought up, but a more difficult problem is with the osteoperosis that the human body goes through in reduced gravity.  For whatever reason, the human bones lose calcium and become much weaker when in space.  The effect is very noticeable (but not crippling) among astronauts and cosmonauts who spend months on space stations.  Fortunately, it does not take long to recover.  But it is a serious problem for that old folks home on the moon.  And the manned Mars missions I've looked up suggest that the duration spent in space for those 'nauts on that one mission may exceed three years.The problem I see with the space elevator is all the crap flying around in outer space.  I could just see spending a trillion bucks on a Clarke Tower just to see it get nailed by an old Apollo module.  Anyone see the picture of the crater in the space shuttle window caused by an old fleck of paint?  Another problem.  Some of the plans I've seen involve attaching the upper part to an asteroid in geosynchronious orbit over the earth.  Who wants to volunteer their country for being tied to an earthsmacker?On the other hand, I'd like to respond to the post that asteroid mining on the moon would be difficult because of the lack of steel.  Um... what were you expecting to make with the asteroids?  From what I understand, most of them are carbon and iron.  If we could manage to start smelting on a small level with earth borne facilities, there should be a robust lunar steel industry in place in no time.</blockquote>

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