Re: Cerian submarines

On Apr 25, 8:39 am, daniel.c.bertr...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Which is why Ceres sounds so good as a source of water.  It would take
far less energy to get a lot of water from Ceres than from earth to
the moon.

You want to run a pipe between Ceres and the moon to power up a
turbine and beam the energy back to earth? Where's the liquid supply
of booze comin' from?

and the 400 M km of pipe? Otherwise using ships or tankers you still
have to stop the carrier in orbit around the moon.and then climb out
of the gravity well when you have delivered. Lots of v there.
.

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