> There was literally nothing there No there wasn't. There was a whole continent of untapped resources. You can argue that the solar system is a lot of untapp

> There was literally nothing there No there wasn't. There was a whole continent of untapped resources. You can argue that the solar system is a lot of untapped resources too. Harder to extract than sailing a piece of wood across an ocean growing some food, and killing the people who are already there. Harder than colonising Antarctica or the surface of the sea too, but there are resources - not just minerals but solar energy too. But interstellar space? Beyond the Oort Cloud? There's no evidence of anything other than perhaps some very sparse dust. That is nothing, and (jokes aside) completely incomparable to Ohio.