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No one said anything about re-entry. Assuming this level of development, we would also have production capabilities in space.
by mechanical_bear 5y ago
No one said anything about re-entry. Assuming this level of development, we would also have production capabilities in space.
- notahacker 5y agoI'm not sure that multiplying the complexity (do future humans have non-trivial quantities of stuff that needs producing closer to a particular asteroid than planets with the same minerals in much greater quantities? Why?) is much of a counter argument to the basic intuition that it's only economically viable to mine comparatively tiny quantities of commodities in massively dispersed locations far away from human production centres if it's for some reason difficult to get it closer to home.