You've actually pointed out the fatal flaw in your own argument: > you'd dump your resources into bioengineering something human-like that was better suited to

You've actually pointed out the fatal flaw in your own argument: > you'd dump your resources into bioengineering something human-like that was better suited to space, and/or into robotics And how do you even know what to bio-engineer before you know what the effects on humans in space are? How can you test what robots work in space without humans, at least at first? Your argument is basically a circular chicken-and-egg dead end where you don't want to do anything until you can do it properly, but you have no idea what "properly" even is because you haven't tried to do it, repeat. > don't build the factory before you have an ACTUAL profitable product in mind Yeah, but you build a mockup. You do some trial versions. You test things out, run some experiments, see what's possible. That's the phase we're in. Have some patience. Geeze, I don't know what you're so animated about. The ISS isn't even that expensive.