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But 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

• monocasa 8y ago
  Right, 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 ago
    This 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.