you might find a couple of metals on asteroids

but youre not gonna be making the high tech alloys and stuff you need for megastructures outta those

science needs to git gud with converting elements into other elements

likewise youll need all sorts of non metallic compounds

but at that point we could have some new tech that can do shit we would call magic

in small amounts with tight controls they can turn lead into gold in the lab

thats called alchemy and i herd that costs an arm and a leg

forgetting all the radioactive lead they make

lul

It's not exactly viable right now

lol

Guess I'll give up on space and just have to start working on my "Black Tarzan" film instead

but its all fringe science atm so yeah

lol wut

Animal crossing new DLC, communists moving in your town

you know

for the energy it would take

to move shit around

every fucking day

you could just fill that entire belt

with panels

lol

mars is also farther than earth

put the panels in SPACE with a long cable going down

molecular assembly will get around a great many problems

@mermerwapadapi hadn't thought of it like that

and theres gonna be a huge drop off in solar panel effectiveness

and is possible

@Inkogni thats retarded lol

yeah but im banking that the energy it takes to maintain the consistent spin is less than the energy gained

the cable would break

just panels and a power bank large enough to hold 4 times the energy of one day of collection

that should be plenty

theres literally no need for that much energy either

@Lucienne d'Anwyl truu genious oftien apears stuupid

Use orbital mirrors to direct extra sunlight to the panels.

i wasnt planning to transport the energy back to earth 😆

you can easily get away with just stationary fields

for small stations

i donno maybe they are running matter fabricators