Construction
Weighting near 10 million tons, construction was envisaged using bulk materials extracted from the Moon and sent to space using a mass driver, retrieve the pellets at L2 using a mass catcher, transport them to L5 where they can be processed in an industrial facility and start the construction of the torus, only materials that cannot be obtained from the moon will have to be imported from earth. Asteroid mining was an option too.
Read more about this topic: Stanford Torus
Famous quotes containing the word construction:
“When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)