Don't forget Asimov's The Martian Way. First published in November 1952 (!!!), the story is about how Earth refuses to export its water to Martian colonies who are using them as reaction mass on their spaceships. The Martians, in response,…
…Earth that makes Mars colonization profitable from a Terrestrial perspective -- so at any time the flow of resources could be cut off, see the Asimov classic story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_Way The Muskian model that we're just going to send millions of people canned food makes no sense at all. Eric Drexler's molecular assembler program has foundered but we need something functionally equivalent,…
That (with the exception that they're taking the water to water-impoverished Mars, rather than Earth orbit or California) is basically the plot of The Martian Way by Asimov. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way in real life, because Saturn's rings are more like diffuse snow flurries than mountain-sized ice chunks, as cool as that would be. And coupling your…
> Where did the water come from? Good question! His story "The Martian Way" addresses this. I don't really want to spoil it from you, but basically: where you'd expect. > Surely they weren't storing it as H20 on the ship? Why not? It's stable, it's useful for other reasons,…
One thing with the early sci-fi is you will have to pretend you don’t know what we now know about the other planets. Asimov (The Martian Way I think got Saturn’s rings very wrong) and Heinlein (Mars and Venus are both depicted very wrongly and still a very entertaining story in Double Star) had a few stories and novellas.
可别忘了阿西莫夫的《火星方式》（The Martian Way）。这部小说最早出版于 1952 年 11 月（！！！），讲的是地球拒绝向火星殖民地出口水资源，因为火星人把水用作太空飞船的工质。火星人的应对方式则是……
Don't forget Asimov's The Martian Way. First published in November 1952 (!!!), the story is about how Earth refuses to export its water to Martian colonies who are using them as reaction mass on their spaceships. The Martians, in response,…
……从地球的角度来看，Mars colonization 毫无盈利点——因此资源的流动随时都可能被切断，可以参考阿西莫夫的经典小说 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_Way。马斯克那种只管往那儿运几百万人份罐头食品的模式完全是扯淡。Eric Drexler 的分子装配机项目已经凉了，但我们需要某种功能相当的东西……
…Earth that makes Mars colonization profitable from a Terrestrial perspective -- so at any time the flow of resources could be cut off, see the Asimov classic story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_Way The Muskian model that we're just going to send millions of people canned food makes no sense at all. Eric Drexler's molecular assembler program has foundered but we need something functionally equivalent,…
你应该去读读艾萨克·阿西莫夫的《火星方式》。
You should read Isaac Asimov's "The Martian Way".
那基本上就是阿西莫夫《火星方式》的剧情了（区别在于他们是把水运到极度缺水的火星，而不是地球轨道或加州）。可惜在现实中这套行不通，因为土星环更像是弥散的风雪，而不是像山一样巨大的冰块，尽管听起来很酷。而且把你的……对接上去……
That (with the exception that they're taking the water to water-impoverished Mars, rather than Earth orbit or California) is basically the plot of The Martian Way by Asimov. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way in real life, because Saturn's rings are more like diffuse snow flurries than mountain-sized ice chunks, as cool as that would be. And coupling your…
> 水是从哪儿来的？问得好！他的小说《火星方式》里就讲到了这个。我不想剧透你，但简单说就是：如你所料的地方。> 他们总不可能在飞船上直接以 H2O 的形态储存吧？为什么不呢？它性质稳定，而且还有其他用途……
> Where did the water come from? Good question! His story "The Martian Way" addresses this. I don't really want to spoil it from you, but basically: where you'd expect. > Surely they weren't storing it as H20 on the ship? Why not? It's stable, it's useful for other reasons,…
看早期科幻小说的一个问题是，你得假装自己不知道人类如今掌握的关于其他行星的知识。阿西莫夫（我觉得《火星方式》里把土星环彻底搞错了）和海因莱因（《双星》里对火星和金星的描绘全错了，但故事依然非常精彩）都有过一些短篇和小长篇。
One thing with the early sci-fi is you will have to pretend you don’t know what we now know about the other planets. Asimov (The Martian Way I think got Saturn’s rings very wrong) and Heinlein (Mars and Venus are both depicted very wrongly and still a very entertaining story in Double Star) had a few stories and novellas.