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edprochak@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, October 2, 2016 at 8:01:05 PM UTC-4, ji...@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:

>> How about PTFE so you can make insulated wire so you can have
>> helmet and other lights?
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jim Pennino
> 
> So you seem to think that it has to be done EXACTLY how it is done
> on earth RIGHT NOW.
> 
> Don't you realize there were ways of insulating wire before plastics?

Sure there were; varnish, paper, cotton and silk.

The materials to make those are not available on Mars either and they are
piss poor which is why plastic is now used.


-- 
Jim Pennino