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Sorry I cannot see the relationship between moving industries into space and total productivity or earth becoming a paradise. Moving things between space and e
by legulere 10y ago
Sorry I cannot see the relationship between moving industries into space and total productivity or earth becoming a paradise.
Moving things between space and earth will always be costly and people will still want to live on earth. If we can solve waste, productivity issues in space why should we not be able to also solve them on earth?
- TeMPOraL 10y agoThe idea here is that industries tend to be close to where their inputs come from; there are many more resources up there than on the planet, and once we bootstrap space mining it might be more economical to move various stages of manufacturing to space than to keep them downwell and drop raw materials from the sky. Moving mining and manufacturing means also moving the big sources of pollution. "Total productivity" and "Earth becoming a paradise" are dreams, of course. This is a song, not an economics report. But it outlines pretty well the things people might reasonably want to do in space, and why.