simcoder t1_ixbo7en wrote
Reply to comment by Independent-Cod3150 in Artemis is cool, but there really isn't a good reason we're going back to the Moon (or to Mars and beyond). by [deleted]
You still have the bootstrap problem though right?
Someone has to spend the trillions of dollars on the first refinery in space and then someone has to buy the super expensive materials that come out of that refinery. When all that stuff can just be blasted off the Earth for a fraction of the cost in quantities far exceeding the current demand for them.
It is a cool idea though. But I think you kind of need something approaching long term communism to make that possible. And we all know how that works out.
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