Everywhere they sailed west it was just more ocean.
Until Columbus.
You might be right. It may just be rocks out there.
It might be rocks full of H3 and trace metals could power the world for 100,000 years.
It’s like being a baby. Crawling is just fine and walking is very unsteady. But then you walk fine and can run. Gotta take that first step to find out.
“Everywhere they sailed west it was just more ocean.
Until Columbus.”
Yes, and if Columbus had telescopes and remote probes that could have reached across the ocean and told him there was nothing there, he wouldn’t have set sail either.
“It might be rocks full of H3 and trace metals could power the world for 100,000 years.”
If so, then it might finally be economically viable to go harvest them. But until then, it’s mostly just taxpayer-funded science masturbation.
“Gotta take that first step to find out.”
We’ve already taken a great many steps and we have found out that we live in the only amenable spot surrounded by a gigantic “dead zone” we’ll never escape.
“You might be right. It may just be rocks out there.
It might be rocks full of H3 and trace metals could power the world for 100,000 years.
It’s like being a baby. Crawling is just fine and walking is very unsteady. But then you walk fine and can run. Gotta take that first step to find out.”
“In space it’s raining soup. All we need to do is learn how to make soup bowls.” I’ve heard that attributed to Robert A. Heinlein, and Jerry Pournelle. It’s going to take a while, and I’m more than a bit irrigated that I probably won’t live to see it happening. I was expecting to be able to vacation on Mars by now. We have, or can build the technology to do this, we just have to get off our dead butts and on our dying feet and get to work. Jeff Bezos seems to think we should move all our polluting technology into space, and I agree. And most of our population, too.