We can’t even take care of this planet. Space colonies are out until we can.
I can’t even imagine what kind of dirty shithole a space colony would be.
If we can find the money and political will to terraform something like Mars, we should probably take .01% of that budget and turn the earth into paradise first.
Uhhhh, slaves?
No, you see, they’re completely free people except for the part where we control their employment and if they can’t pay their bills we cut off their air.
Yep, I think everyone has it wrong, they’re not trying to get to space. They’re trying to put everyone else in space while they keep the earth.
Here’s what he’s doing: not launching a damn thing. Maybe he should be focused on getting BE-4 production into the double digits in engines made and certified for flight before we worry about the millions of space colonies.
Yet another example of the obscenely wealthy being regarded as experts on everything.
as has every science fiction writer since asimov
We’ve got a lot of problems with space before we can ever put a trillion people in space. Between the vacuum and radiation of space and the fact that our bodies don’t function well in extended zero-G, just keeping a few people alive up there is a monumental task. Then you have the potential for industrial accidents to poison the entire ecosystem and micrometeorite impacts trying to ventilate the structure - a structure that is being weakened by constant exposure to cosmic radiation.
I mean eventually we have to go to space or die and I prefer the former but we are very, very far away from that. To the point where the suggestion is science fiction, not being a visionary pioneer.
How does this qualify as news?
A bunch of earthnoids in this thread have souls weighed down by gravity.
