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Full marks for ambition, but what's the economic argument for this, or indeed any other teraforming plan. I know it's a civilization saving idea, but in the ab
by Simon_O_Rourke 4y ago
Full marks for ambition, but what's the economic argument for this, or indeed any other teraforming plan.
I know it's a civilization saving idea, but in the absence of some killer asteroid on it's way, who's going to pay for this.
- incrudible 4y agoElon Musk. In all seriousness, I do not believe you can achieve the goal in this article with only ten billion dollars, but if you could, the money would be there.
- Simon_O_Rourke 4y agoThe only way Elon Musk would take a punt on it would be if someone else was actively trying it already, i.e., prestige and ego-driven competition to be first. That's what got Mercury, Gemini and the Apollo programs going. Not going to argue that their applications had enormous economic benefits in the end, but that wasn't the original driver. Ten or a hundred million dollars might be enough for a private ego-driven thing, but 10 billion?
- BurningFrog 4y ago$10b is under $2 per person. We could easily pay for it with a GoFundMe.
- Simon_O_Rourke 4y ago$2 is a full days wage for some people in the developing world who have more interest in sorting out their own local environment over some moon shot
- BurningFrog 4y agoYou don't literally have to demand each human donates $2. It just has to get that much on average.
- maccard 4y agoIt's $65 per working adult in the USA, or 1% of the _annual_ us military budget.