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Most inventions are serendipitous accidents. To find valuable things that can only happen in zero or micro gravity will probably require lots of people existing
by njarboe 9y ago
Most inventions are serendipitous accidents. To find valuable things that can only happen in zero or micro gravity will probably require lots of people existing and experimenting in that environment.
- javajosh 9y agoOn it's face, that's not a terrible argument. But consider the "bet" you are making: spend like $1T on a habitable structure large enough for a good community, and then ~1B per year to operate it, in the hopes of "serendipity". How many materials scientists (and their families) would want to live in orbit, or on the moon, in harsh, cramped conditions, with limited tools and resources?