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  • #31
    Doesn't matter where you want to go in the solar system or what you want to do once you get there the first step is having a 'critical mass' of activity in space and hence potential demand to justify the cost of getting there. And the first missions are always 'loss leaders' i.e. science missions that get paid for on the tax payers dime. That's not a bad thing but you won't get mass transit to location X until there's enough demand for whatever X has to make it profitable to go there. First step is always going to be getting lots of people into Earth Orbit 24/7. After that simple demand should generate venture capital to investigate retrieving and processing 'stuff' from the Moon and asteroid belt etc. The critical mass of people and capital equipment goes up again and the cycle repeats.

    And it would be the same thing for Mars, science missions first but no large scale migrations until costs come way down & the potential benefits go way up! Even the colonization of North America only proceeded because simple demand/cost equations made it worthwhile (lots of demand, manageable if expensive costs/risks) .

    The only other way to get it done would be for a certain command economy have its leaders say 'just do it'.
    Last edited by Monash; 21 Jan 22,, 02:16.
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    • #32
      Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View Post
      The title of this thread is war in space. Is there anything out there worth going to war over.
      The high ground

      In the realm of spirit, seek clarity; in the material world, seek utility.

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      • #33
        Originally posted by Parihaka View Post
        The high ground
        He's no Jedi.

        Chimo

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        • #34
          Originally posted by Parihaka View Post
          The high ground
          Only when there's something on (or in this case in) that 'ground' worth fighting for. You'd have to heavily militarize space and/or have a lot of valuable civilian capital located there before its worth fighting over and at the moment that's not the case. There's no particular reason to militarize space extensively when all the valuable assets are on the ground and readily reachable with the weapon systems you've already got deployed.
          If you are emotionally invested in 'believing' something is true you have lost the ability to tell if it is true.

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          • #35
            Originally posted by Officer of Engineers View Post
            He's no Jedi.
            In the realm of spirit, seek clarity; in the material world, seek utility.

            Leibniz

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            • #36


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              Chimo

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