My mind is made up. I’m staying down here, even if I were younger.
45 years in aerospace.
This will NEVER be cost effective.
Cue “Picks and Lasers.”
SpaceX did another launch and landing this morning of its Starlink satellites along with three rideshares. They are averaging about one launch every ten days.
Oye, Beltalowda!
Countless asteroids are already sitting on the moon for harvesting... Just mine it
“space is back” /sure
because one article says a bunch of stuff we’ve yet to do as of right now.
i’m glad we can get people back up to the space station, its a step in thenright direction. and i am glad people ‘have plans’ to start doing stuff further out.
but its a little hyped at this particular point.
A couple of thoughts. When has government ceded control of anything? When has the military voluntarily ceded strategic high ground?
Earth First!
We’ll mine the other planets later!
To the knee jerk naysayers I recommend Live Free or Die by John Ringo. We can do this on our own, we don’t need advanced aliens to help us. Think big and you just might accomplish big things.
Nope! After the current crop of Communist Luddites take over, you’ll be lucky to find a library - let alone a book. And space will be listed as endangered and saved for the children. “Idiocracy” did not have a space program and neither will the US
Space will be both militarized and colonized. National sovereignties will be
asserted regardless of any puny agreements from 50-60 years ago.
There will be blood on the moon.
We were there first and we planted our flag. We own it.
Inner city minority groups and inferior nations are all upset about our going back to the moon and the expanse of our solar system as explorers and conquerors because it means that we are leaving them and their self generated social decay and their screwed up culture behind to rot.
My wife calls it the “Van Halen belt”.
Notice that none of these modern space missions seem to go past it....
Even Gold/platinum are not worth the cost to get there, mine it, and return to earth.
I plan to become rich by selling picks and shovels to the astroid miners...
also space whiskey and flapjack powder.
And once there is an endless supply of precious metals, guess what those will be worth? Basic economics.