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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bX: [QB] Oh my. No, but one possibility we may be overlooking is a more aesthetic answer? Like Utopia Planitia is looking to build a ground complex that reflects the scope of their achievements in ship-building at the orbital facilities. So maybe they build themselves the coolest office-building EVAR and make it look like a GCS saucer and assorted hull bits. Maybe? Because I could actually see that happening (esp. where any Scandinavian architects might be involved.) Because while it might be plausible to assemble these structures on the ground, and it might be possible to lift them into orbit, and while that might even have some marginal safety advantage, it is, at heart, a profoundly silly idea. I'm siding with Lee on this one (minus 80% of the n00Bashing, it's his job, you see). Yes it's an interesting idea, and obviously has given us something to discuss, but I just don't see it. Because it really wouldn't make sense, even if you could, to assemble this stuff on the ground only to lob it into the sky. Not on the scale of these vessels. There's not even any particularly compelling reason to. We saw the NX-01 being constructed in orbit and I'm guessing ship construction safety/technology wouldn't have taken a step back in the intervening centuries. These TNG engineers, they've got transporters and replicators and force-fields and shit. There's a reason we don't build our supertankers in South Dakota. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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