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Topic	Will humans ever make self-sufficient space colonies?
willythemailboy 08/14/25 10:28:35 PM #14:	adjl posted... Fortunately, solar power is pretty readily available in space. Unfortunately, capturing that energy is relatively material-intensive and I don't actually know how viable it would be to synthesize those materials out of said energy. Canonically, the replicators don't actually convert energy into matter. They create new items from individual atoms reclaimed from the waste stream generated on the ship, similar to ripping apart a Lego construction and reusing those same Legos to build something new. Just, you know, at the atomic scale. Still absurdly energy intensive but many orders of magnitude less so than doing it the E=MC^2 route. --- There are four lights. <cite>willythemailboy posted [p:986096345] in Will human... [t:81027103]...</cite> <quote>adjl posted... </cite><quote>Fortunately, solar power is pretty readily available in space. Unfortunately, capturing that energy is relatively material-intensive and I don't actually know how viable it would be to synthesize those materials out of said energy.</quote>Canonically, the replicators don't actually convert energy into matter. They create new items from individual atoms reclaimed from the waste stream generated on the ship, similar to ripping apart a Lego construction and reusing those same Legos to build something new. Just, you know, at the atomic scale.Still absurdly energy intensive but many orders of magnitude less so than doing it the E=MC^2 route. --- There are four lights.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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