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...or component of the study involved the use of automated [[self-replicating factories]] for lunar exploration and exploitation.

*There are two fictional visions of self-replicating industrial infrastructure that are near opposite ends in scale. In a story ...ld be imagining an industrial base something like Drexler's table top nano-factories. The industrial infrastructure would be set up in hours. It would support

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The assemblers need not be nano. Self-replicating factories will at first be very big. A good way to simplify the replication process i

...raw materials for production or spare parts for broken machines. Central factories could loose the ability to distribute their production to a sufficient cust

...coverable concentrations, and could export them to Luna and Earth orbiting factories. It has been suggested that importing goods from Ceres would be more econo ...moon is converted into tailings, during that time Luna and Earth orbiting factories should be churning out a great many solar power satellites, orbital habitat

*Inflatables, factories, warehousing, agriculture, archiving

...m at the conclusion of WWII when the Russians discovered the German rocket factories at Verdunn.

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...ors to avoid radiation hazards. There will be indoor shielded pressurized factories and repair shops. There will be Lunar remote control consoles for those fu

...otograph craters and chemically analyze rocks. They must have established factories and built those spacecraft." :::Vice President: "You say they built factories on the moon that they used to build spacecraft on the moon? How would they

...r lock, melt it, and put out the tailings at another air lock; pressurized factories to produce iron and shape it into stock. There are many items of equipment ...per in the group in New Space on economic use of the moon. It describes a self-replicating industry on the moon that produces a mass driver and the components of spac

...low cost transportation of materials from the moon. With these materials, factories in cis-lunar space can form large well shielded spacecraft for colonizing M

*Inflatables, factories, warehousing, agriculture, archiving ====Modular Factories from Earth====

...leather. People have dexterous enough robots now on assembly lines in car factories that they could build the tools needed to industrialize the moon. I [[Robo

...for it with money from the sale of raw and processed materials to orbiting factories. A [[Luna-Mars Trade|single stage to orbit fully reusable space craft]] is