Human missions to Mars in doubt after astronaut kidney shrinkage revealed - eviltoast
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    5 months ago

    Maybe if you were going to try to mass produce up there, but the mass of the equipment needed to mine and smelt ore and roll it out into plating would be way more than the mass of the plating for a single vehicle. And that’s not considering capturing an asteroid and bringing it into orbit.