Here's another thing to keep in mind about the amount of iron/ect that gets mined out of asteroids. A lot of the metal goes back into the asteroids in the form of walls, floors, doors, ect.
Besides unless these asteroids are made of pure iron, then by the time you smelt the ore, the resulting volume of metal is a fair bit less than the volume removed.
More of the metal goes to custom made fenships, non-spacerock stations, the colonies on Mars and the various moons and so on. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of what is actually sold to Dane companies isn't so much iron as less common elements and precious metals.
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On the subject of biomass, when I first wrote up the description of Babylon .5, I stated that they have some agracultureal sections, more recently I decided that at least one of those areas is set for tropical conditions and grows Bananas (the APE units like them) and maybe some sugarcane.
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finally, something that occured to me reading the DU based thread. I'm sure that if you look hard enough, you could find uranium ore scattered around. Can anyone else picture some boskonians trying to refine some uranium for use in bombs? __________________
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Besides unless these asteroids are made of pure iron, then by the time you smelt the ore, the resulting volume of metal is a fair bit less than the volume removed.
More of the metal goes to custom made fenships, non-spacerock stations, the colonies on Mars and the various moons and so on. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of what is actually sold to Dane companies isn't so much iron as less common elements and precious metals.
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On the subject of biomass, when I first wrote up the description of Babylon .5, I stated that they have some agracultureal sections, more recently I decided that at least one of those areas is set for tropical conditions and grows Bananas (the APE units like them) and maybe some sugarcane.
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finally, something that occured to me reading the DU based thread. I'm sure that if you look hard enough, you could find uranium ore scattered around. Can anyone else picture some boskonians trying to refine some uranium for use in bombs? __________________
666-HELL The phone number of the Beast
___________________________
"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin