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Subject: Re: Lunar Colony
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Date: Sun, 17-Mar-85 23:05:33 EST
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From: Rick McGeer (on an z29-e) <mcgeer%ucbkim@Berkeley>

> > Forget draging the farmtools and small hand tools up with you
> > (after the first batch - and even they are optional).  A good
> > smith given reasonable ore and smelting facilities can make
> > an astounding number of tools.
> 
> And, I imagin, produce an astounding amount of atmospheric pollution.
> Since the available atmosphere is very small, you cannot disperse
> things into it.  EVERY byproduct of your processes must be dealt
> with.

Forgive me, but I don't understand.  How on earth can you have air pollution
when you don't have air?  In this case, the byproducts of smelting wouldn't
be precipitate suspended in a fluid (= air pollution), but rather would
settle to the ground as a dust.

						Rick.