Are there anons here who don't think we will colonize space? Honestly I can't imagine us not doing it within the next 200 years. The technology to make moon bases and rotating space habitats exist today and we are going to need a place to put our growing population. Also there is pretty much no known way for humans to make ourselves go fully extinct so it is going to happen eventually.
Are there anons here who don't think we will colonize space...
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Cameron Moore
>Are there anons here who don't think we will colonize space?
Right here. I won't happen for several reasons:
>Incredibly hard to ship resources to and from
>Incredibly expensive to ship resources to and from
>High investment, with no return
No one is going to seriously fund something that's nothing but a big hole. The money will run out eventually.
Jackson Sullivan
>being this uneducated
Resources exist in space, everything found on earth can be found in space
anything organic can be grown
the returns would be the exact same as the returns colonies did in ages past, Space has lots of easy to access precious metals and rare earth elements, the nations building those mining colonies will love to have both
asterank.com
there's a decent enough map of what can be grabbed here and now
and while you might bark that space gold would crash the market, Remember that you can send a small bit at a time to maintain value, like the good ole diamond cartel does
Cooper Reed
>Resources exist in space,
>He fell for the space mining meme
Nice user, nice. FYI real life isn't sci-fi.
>anything organic can be grown
Yeah with fertilizer and water. Where are you going to get those from?
>the returns would be the exact same as the returns colonies did in ages past
No they wouldn't. For starters there are no current space mining operations (some billionaires are putting together to try and make one, but the technology isn't there). Further, you wouldn't be competitive. You would have to sell any resources you mined in spaces for more than the equivalent mass of the same resources mined on earth.
Jeremiah Murphy
Yeah, me. Without a space elevator powered by a fusion reactor it's not going to happen. Unless said space elevator is a global effort and protected globally as well, brown people are going to try their very hardest to blow it up, and whichever country didn't participate in building and maintaining it will probably help them try to blow it up.
Aiden Adams
>shitposting this fucking hard
remove yourself from life, you fucking clown shoe
Phosphorous, Potassium and Nitrogen are all key fertilizers for plants, all three of these are common in asteroids, you'd be able to fertilize your hydroponic farms with the shit you mine
Water is also common in space rocks, where in the blueberry fuck do you think the water on earth came from
and the rare earths on earth are difficult to extract and are quite polluting to refine, space would give more bountiful returns on these elements, and wont have to deal with pollution at all, since all the shit that you can't use for anything, you can just fling into the sun
Europe had plenty of gold in it's mines, didn't stop them from demanding more from the colonies it planted, Space would just be a means for more gold to be acquired
I should learn not to respond to low effort bait
Lucas Reyes
Holy shit user your such a fucking retard I can barely be bothered to respond. So here, some nigger with a phd.
seeker.com
Fuck off with your shitty infographics, this isn't The Expanse, you underage little faggot.
Alexander Lee
>seeker
>blog article
Easton Carter
>Guy has a Ph.D in astrophysics
>Vs. your shitty opinions.
I know who I'm deferring to.
Bentley Mitchell
All we need is proper motivation, nothing else really.