[theFIRMbss]

> An entirely NEW planet to open to colonization is not worth the cost of developing spaceflight ?

What are the odds that
Establishment activists
immediately

get the new planet
declared "development free"
like Antarctica

so there'd be no way
to colonize or profit
from the "investment."

[irv]

get the new planet declared "development free" like Antarctica

Let's see them enforce it.