Starting out small

From: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Xenophile

> 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.

To be honest, I don't think he said the smallest habitat would have to
weigh a billion tons. But he did imply that O'Neill's plan involved
building a billion ton habitat before commencing to build the first SPS
from space materials.

Regards,

Mike Combs