Thanks for the reply. I didn't know we weren't near Kessler syndrome, I'll look into it! EDIT: Looking at your name, are you ancap?? When do you think (ballpa

Thanks for the reply. I didn't know we weren't near Kessler syndrome, I'll look into it! EDIT: Looking at your name, are you ancap?? When do you think (ballpark) it would be realistic? I'm seeing so many problems with it - how do you get the stuff from asteroids to earth? (Mass drivers are a nice idea, but in practice I doubt the public would accept hurling tons of material towards earth). There are so many problems that we have a hard time expecting, like lunar dust[0], issues with the code used to run the equipement, as it is often to far away to be reliably controled remotely (The cassini mission is a good example if I remember correctly) While I agree that for communications and the likes, sattelite coverage is a net benefit, you have to agree that the material benefits of exploration and research in space are undefined at best - it's entirely possible we'll find nothing useful for a bit. I think it's important to keep things in perspective - how many order of magnitude is SpaceX better compared to the old tech? How many launches do we actually need to do yearly? Is there a point where the environemental cost starts to be equivalent? I'd like to see how much the current space race is damaging to the environnement compared to using the old designs - imagine it's equivalent to 50 years of launches (not a real number), it then becomes much less excusable. Imagine if we stalled the current space race for 15-20 years and had everybody forced to only run simulations, I'm certain there wouldn't be as many botched tests and designs as we are seeing, other compagnies included.(For reference, since the nuclear bomb test ban all nuke design is made in simulators [1] [0]:https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230424-the-people-creating-fake-moon-dust&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiJ2Nmwu8v-AhWnkIkEHcQtBBgQFnoECAEQAw&usg=AOvVaw0Oe00fsneriyF9JY9sTy3b https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bbc.com/future/arti... [1] :https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/virtual-nuclear-weapons-design-and-the-blur-of-reality/ https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/virtual-nuclear-weapons-d...