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Re: Lunar Mining Colony
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Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:51:43 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Brian H. Nielsen writes:
  I've updated my web site with pictures of my lunar mining colony -
Copernicus City.

I was wondering why this was posted to .trains...  now I know. Very cool. Some
nice touches there. I like the focus on practical (bootstrapping is a viable
technique for building an extraterran industrial infrastructure) as well as
the acknowledgement that rails, even in low gravity, still have a place in
industrial operations.

(see the Mars Trilogy by K S Robinson... good stuff)

Nicely done! I want to see more rolling stock, though...

++Lar



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  Re: Lunar Mining Colony
 
(...) More rolling stock is in the plans for when the mining operation gets up to speed and the associated industrial complex is established. The first priority was to survive and establish the initial base. Brian P.S. The dark grey mountain houses (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.space)

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  Lunar Mining Colony
 
I've updated my web site with pictures of my lunar mining colony - Copernicus City. The Prologue and Chapter I show the inception and construction of the initial base on my 4'x8' lunar landscape. Future chapters will follow its development into a (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jul-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.trains, lugnet.build, lugnet.space)  

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