pstarr wrote:That's hard science. It was in Wired magazine. Or was it Omni?Keith_McClary wrote:Where does your "scooping gasses from gas giant planets" technology come from?KaiserJeep wrote:Of course, this is also about the dozenth time I have seen a bit of SF technology abstracted out of a classic novel ...
It was actually proposed by NASA. That is an easy way to acquire hydrgen and helium. Some of the moons of the giant planets have other gases such as Methane, They also noted that the rings of Saturn are largely water ice.
Solid materials including various stones and metal ores can be found in the asteroids. Space contains effectively unlimited materials and energy. All of these places and processes are possible with current technology, no fundamental advances required.