> Exploiting space is "impossible" because rockets can't economically lift the whole mass of the Earth's crust? Let's go smaller scale then? How many players n

> Exploiting space is "impossible" because rockets can't economically lift the whole mass of the Earth's crust? Let's go smaller scale then? How many players need CCTV like surveillance down to 50m resolution from above? How often do the satellites producing such images need to be replaced? Who's gonna pay for the whole ordeal? It's the government as always. Even smaller scale: How many people are isolated and need Internet via Satellite? Considering that the world is constantly moving towards urbanization is it really necessary? Laying fiber cable from A to B will always be cheaper The private jet crowd and private yacht crowd will maybe be interested in it. What's the economic breakdown of the ISS? 100B thrown down the sink , just like everything space related which is not military related or weather monitoring. > Since you're psychologizing the optimists so hard... can you or someone else explain to me the appeal of doom? We have just witnessed a miracle with the mRNA vaccine, there are so many things to be optimistic about here on Earth. Pragmatic optimism beats pipedream type optimism every day of the week. Also only the latter can be abused for graft purposes, for sure not the former.