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And they said five year plans struggled with predicting demand ;) I'd rather go with "for any delta in mining convenience between solar systems, there exists a
by usrusr 10mo ago
And they said five year plans struggled with predicting demand ;)
I'd rather go with "for any delta in mining convenience between solar systems, there exists a level of FTL magic where shipping would become economically feasible"
Perhaps space slow steaming might be an option if your goal was to make a Dyson sphere exist before the star inside burns out?
- hamdingers 10mo agoHogwash! We can do it much faster than that. With a machine in Alpha Centauri capable of flinging rocks full of rare earth metals back towards the solar system at 1/10th the speed of light, we could be up and running in <150 years. This feels about as realistic as most of the spacetech proposals I hear.
- usrusr 10mo agoI'd imagine insurance premiums to get quite ugly with all those 0.1c rocks passing by
- hamdingers 10mo agoNot my problem, I'll be long dead.
- cindyllm 10mo ago[dead]