Starting out small

--- In spacesettlers, "Combs, Mike" wrote:

> I used to wonder if I was the only one who thought Zubrin was not
> above sometimes making a disingenuous argument to make things come out
> his way. I've since heard many others voice the same complaint, and
> in various areas outside of Zubrin's rough treatment of O'Neill.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Combs

It may be 'disingenuous' to say "an O'Neill colony weighs a billion
tons," because after all there is one design that does, even though
the suggestion that they *all* mass a gigaton is not true. But to say
"the *smallest* O'Neill colony weighs a billion tons" is not
disingenuous, that's a lie.