> Space based manufacturing will be a thing. That is preferred. Why manufacture anything here when you can have better processes outside. I.e.: welding works b

> Space based manufacturing will be a thing. That is preferred. Why manufacture anything here when you can have better processes outside. I.e.: welding works better outside earth's atmosphere through cold welding. Pretty sure there may be other manufacturing processes that can be done better out there with the aid of bots and little human interaction. > the enormous energy required to escape the gravity well. Enormous based on what we know so far. I am sure if we put effort we'd reach far. I imagine people 100-200 years ago thought building massive metal based ships that carry thousands of people and are the size of a building block required enormous energy. Yet we do it for fun these days.