Re: poly: Deuterium

"Richard Schroeppel" <rcs@cs.arizona.edu> writes:

> Wrt planetary-expansionism providing protection against civilization
> killers, recall that space-based environments are fragile. A big
> Mars colony might provide redundancy, but L5 is doubtful.

True, but it is also easier to have lots of L5s spread around. The
question here is if it is possible to destroy *all* the habitats, not
just a lot of them. If they are sufficiently dispersed into the solar
system firing pellet clouds at them becomes hard.

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