Nuke vs. SPS ( Population reduction isn't necessary for wilderness)

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 12:18 PM, hitssquad wrote:
> --- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "sailor.barsoom" wrote:
>> --- In spacesettlers, "hitssquad" wrote:
>> an SPS would be about a hundred times the length and a hundred times the width of the ISS's solar panels, so 10,000 times the area of solar collection, but It doesn't have to have ten thousand docking ports. It doesn't have to have accommodations for sixty thousand astronauts at a time. It doesn't have to have 8,370,000 m3 of pressurized volume. It doesn't have to have ten thousand times the computer processing power. It doesn't have to have ten thousand toilets. It doesn't have to have ten thousand hot water dispensers.
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> ...Because no one is going to be onsite to run and fix it? How is it going to run without people constantly fixing it? Show us. How is it going to be built without people onsite building it? Show us.

The same way communications, weather, GPS, and EVERY OTHER SATELLITE
WE HAVE that are critical to our infrastructure work without having
onsite repair staff. Orbital spares, engineering workarounds from
ground operators, etc.

Sean Dzafovic