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It could be environmental regulations are what finally push economic activity out into space. At the Recode conference a few weeks back, Jeff Bezos (Amazon, Blu
by BrandonMarc 10y ago
It could be environmental regulations are what finally push economic activity out into space. At the Recode conference a few weeks back, Jeff Bezos (Amazon, Blue Origin) stated his wish to see heavy industries and manufacturing moved into the celestial realm, beyond our precious atmosphere and land, leaving the earth pristine and less-polluted.
- hammock 10y agoWe would gladly go to war before that happens. Easier to fund war budgets than space ones.
- Mvandenbergh 10y agoThe problem is that moving heavy industry into space has to compete on a cost benefit basis not with doing those things in a dirty way on earth but with doing them cleanly on earth. It may be more expensive to do manufacturing cleanly, but it's not that much more expensive.