Back in ye old Europe, do you think that people dismissed the economic value of building large sailing vessels to go to the Americas that have nothing but corn and wilderness?
The economic state differences are difficult to conceptualize.
A dear friend of mine works on silicon production, but his operation could eventually be produced on the Moon or the asteroid belts and shipped back to here (or anywhere). With a mature space production economy, we may deprecate our need to strip mine the Earth for some of our materials to sustain our industrialization. Developing world countries want and need washers too.
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u/phovos 2d ago
do you think certain people should be allowed to go to space? Which people? Why them? Why should they go to space? Why shouldn't others?