I recently had a conversation on Apathy curve about industrializing space. It is my opinion that we need to start industrializing space in order to expand our horizons and fire our imaginations. A reader responded to my post by saying that it was not practical at this time to move forward with such things. While I can understand the view point I think it misses a number of key points.
If you start investing in space technology the technology will improve. It's not a question of whether or not technology will improve. It will. And it will improve in ways that make it more profitable. Why? Because the improvements will be driven by private enterprise. Many of the discoveries will be of use on earth as well.
The thought that it's too expensive was stated. This idea doesn't hold water. Some things would cost more to produce in space and some will cost less. What works and what doesn't will sort itself out like any new market. We won't know for sure until we start pushing in that direction. This site has a good talk about the subject.
I will add more to this post as I get time.
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