Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

honbeee t1_j8eraip wrote

Reply to comment by peregrinkm in Would an arcology be conceivably possible? by peregrinkm

If the materials were gathered in space, they would need to go back down to earth in order to be made into the parts of an arcology that would then be assembled in space.

The cost of moving that much material from Earth into space would be immense. If I were to guess, it'd probably be more likely that we'd need to build factories (or whatever means of production is necessary) in space. Factories on the moon

2

peregrinkm OP t1_j8g041f wrote

Yes, factories on the moon would make it less energy consuming to assemble it in space. But they should put them on the side of the moon that faces away from earth, so they don't make it ugly.

0