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Still going to pay transport costs on getting raw materials to space, although I imagine raw mats will be densers and the volume savings will reduce costs.
by jonfw 8y ago
Still going to pay transport costs on getting raw materials to space, although I imagine raw mats will be densers and the volume savings will reduce costs.
- monocasa 8y agoThere's plenty of raw materials in space via asteroid mining, particularly everything you need for satellites.
- penagwin 8y agoBut on currently on earth we have many massive factories to collect, refine, and process just the raw materials. Those factories will require massive amounts of resources to boot, and we don't start with any resources in space....
- monocasa 8y agoRight, so it's a bootstrapping question. If this was your long term goal, you'd right now be working on reusable rockets that you'd soon be using at cost to send up large quantities of infrastructure (cough cough Blue Origin and Space X, Space X being further along and openly talking about Starlink). Next step is mining asteroids for stuff like platinum and dropping it down to earth. Step after that is manufacturing with those raw materials in micro G. Now you have a complete manufacturing chain without gravity wells, and ostensibly a multi trillion dollar company.
- ngold 8y agoThis is the exciting future of space. I love that comment sections are inevitably choked up with people say can't or won't since it's easy to say no.