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Originally Posted by crucifissio
how would we not wait for the drone 1000 years if it approached warp? what is the way around? very curious....
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well the original statement you made is the issue on how to rocket off resources from the planet..
Most of that is based on the idea that these resources will be coming from the planet, when you're probably going to start seeing us mining asteroids etc that are in the area, and working off a base on the moon (why finding water on it was so important)
If you needed to build something that would pull resources off the planet cheaply (building stations/moon bases/etc), you'd build an 'elevator':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator