“The Universe is too big a place to give up so easily. It could yield vast wealth someday , but that day will never come if we give up just as we are getting started.”
Who is “we?” If you think going into space is so important, what part of your life are you sacrificing towards it, or are you planning to sacrifice other people’s wealth for it.
Hank
The Chinese are going to the moon. Mere rocks thrown from the moon hit with the energy of atomic bombs. Not a good idea to let them have a monopoly.
I do have an idea of how space could become profitable. Imagine a self replicating factory made for the moon. Further assume radio instructions to that factory could be sent to retool and produce other useful things. One such factory would become 2, than 4,8,16,32.....a huge number of factories. Said factories could produce all the stuff people needed to live off-world and plenty more for profit. Automation has not reached that point yet, but it will soon. It's a huge windfall for whoever does it first.