Previously, I talked about why space settlement, using current technology, would cost too much to ever happen. But what if the costs were to drop enough, through nanotechnology or some comparable magic wand? Simple: the price of goods sold by space settlements would be too low to pay back even those new, low costs. Why? […]
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As a longtime sf fan, one of the toughest realizations I ever came to is that Space settlements will never happen for economic reasons. In part, the costs of getting to space are too high. Charles Stross has discussed the costs at great length here. To get one person to the Moon, bringing along the
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