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> From: joe@...
> Fortunately, I doubt this will actually get very far. Living under
> water deeper than about 10 m is substantially harder, in most ways,
> than living in space.

Why do you say this? Every year hundreds of military submariners go down to
300m, while barely a dozen astranauts get into orbit. And that's in steel
submarines, concrete is a much more useful material while in compression.
Increase the strength of the hull by 5, or increase to 5x sea level
pressure, and you can go down a mile.

> (even as you do EVAs), then your people will
> be saturated with nitrogen, risking death from the bends

Stop being Zubriny. Hard Suits and advanced robots can both function at very
great depth. It may also be practical to float large assemballies to higher
depths, or put them inside 'dry dockss' built on the ocean floor.

Ocean currents aso present substantial power sources. The transatlantic
drift could sonstantly generate 8x more energy than the maximum wind energy
for any given turbine design. Sound familiar anyone?

John