Here's a way to make anything you want, they say. Could you do something like this in outer space? Probably there'd be a problem with weightlessness. In addition, even if you used artificial gravity, it may introduce complexities that would make it impractical. Yet, I wonder if there would be a way to make this work and make things in space using materials at hand.
Update:
There was once a NASA study to propose ways to reuse the shuttle's external tanks while in space. I made a series out of this.
The point I'm trying to remember is what kind of materials can be fashions from the matter at hand. It seems that things like wires could be made with the metal in the tanks.
Now, try to imagine taking some metal from an asteroid and fashion some building blocks for a space station. Then put it together and voila, a space station. That's the general idea.
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