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Very simple question: on places like earth or other future terraformed worlds, green open spaces while vast are not infinate. I don't see any reason per se why the surface of a planet should have industrial production when it works way better for residential/nature/maybe agricultural space.
So if we're going on the premise that most mass production industry won't be on the surface, is it better to build orbital manufacturing or sub surface manufacturing, maybe in these new (to me at least) Earthscapers. Probably you'd want the fully automated stuff in orbit and the stuff that still needs human labor or supervision to be built underneath cities and people can commute via lifts instead of cars?
I' d love to hear people's thoughts.
I think surface is somewhat impossible to entirely avoid. Dropping stuff into a gravity well is always very violent and if you have it in caverns you're creating a very difficult to access set of circumstances. I feel like you may have it on artificial Islands rather than underground. Perhaps beneath as soil added ontop rather than below sea level.
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