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by DuskStar 2138 days ago
Either you ship steel, or you ship biological material - you're shipping things either way. (And if you can do ISRU, then steel or just plain cast iron is available)
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_emacsomancer_ 2138 days ago
Steel doesn't reproduce though.
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DuskStar 2138 days ago
Reproduction doesn't create matter ex niliho, either. And in space, organizing the matter is far easier than getting the matter in the first place.
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