[socalgop]

We’d need to engineer a space elevator and a lot of other tech before that becomes feasible. The question is how we survive until then.

[marktwain]

We’d need to engineer a space elevator and a lot of other tech before that becomes feasible. The question is how we survive until then.

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The first use for space resources would be in orbit, because materials in orbit are already extremely valuable.

But we do not need a space elevator to exploit resources from space. It is easy to place resources from orbit nearly anywhere on earth. We already know how to do that.

The biggest problem is having the space resources cost less than extracting them from the ground on earth.

That may take a while.