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>A kilogram of anything from space is orders of magnitude more expensive to acquire than a kilogram on Earth. This is true, if you are on Earth and wish to rem
by dTal 7y ago
>A kilogram of anything from space is orders of magnitude more expensive to acquire than a kilogram on Earth.
This is true, if you are on Earth and wish to remain there.
If you are in space already, and don't have deal with pesky things like gravity and friction, it could conceivably be way easier to chip a lump of metal off an asteroid and hurl it in the general direction of where it needs to be, than to dig it up and put it on a boat. It's a bit chicken and egg, but it's easy to imagine a scenario where off-world becomes the new Shenzen.
- 0xffff2 7y ago> It's a bit chicken and egg, but it's easy to imagine a scenario where off-world becomes the new Shenzen. So easy to imagine that we've been doing so for 40 years [0]. In fact, the basic technology seems to have been in place for 40 years as well, but no economic incentive to execute on these grand plans for permanent human habitation in space has yet been found. Furthermore, I have yet to see any evidence that such incentive will ever be found. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colon...