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Old 07-08-10, 12:00 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Zachstar View Post
As far as He3 the moon is obviously the first stop. Tho He3 fusion will not be economically viable for a great deal of time anyway. Why would you develop all that infrastructure to get a small bit of advantage in the reaction when you can use PB11 and get boron from mines or the ocean?
Why wait for any of that, when we can use what we've got now?

Columbus would have made his voyages a lot faster if he had waited for someone to invent the steamship.
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