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So let's just say that we, somehow, overcome the immense engineering and technological barriers to having some form of big-rear end space colony. How do you deal with the almost zero tolerance for disasters in space? Like, on earth bad poo poo happens in cities all the loving time. Huge fires, devastation by weather patterns, a powerout on the entire eastern seaboard, whatever. If we have cities in space, then bad poo poo will happen up there, but the end result will be the destruction of the majority of last decade's gdp and everyone up there dying. Plus the debris hitting earth and whatever. I just can't see how you get around the fact that if disaster strikes in space, everyone dies.
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in other words, the myth of human progress is a myth for a reason. there are some things that will obviously never be possible for humanity to achieve. it could easily be the case that mass living and operating outside of earth is one of them. and the prohibitive costs for the initial investment is pretty strong evidence in favor of that idea e: one thing quickly about the asteroid mining business venture. it probably could be the case that once the glut of resources hits the market, new demand pops up to compensate for the drop in price and give a return on the space mining investment. the problem is there's zero guarantee that this process will happen quickly. In that case, the mining company is left holding a bunch of dirt cheap minerals and faces insolvency due to being unable to recoup on the investment, the big winners are the vultures that buy the assets of the company after bankruptcy. now obviously it's not certain the above will happen, but i think the possibility is enough to dissuade companies for the titanic investment of space mining. A big flaming stink fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Sep 25, 2014 |
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Sep 25, 2014 03:52
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