It will costs trillions to bootstrap that industry in space. It would cost mere ...

		giantrobot on Nov 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 8... It will costs trillions to bootstrap that industry in space. It would cost mere billions to make that industry on Earth cleaner. The Earth is fucking gigantic. It's literally filled with raw materials. Access to those materials is downright cheap compared to attempting to access the same material in space.