Economic exploitation of space

[HVC]

babysteps. The "keeping up with the joneses"-model will make sure that space-tourism gets cheaper. Much of the rest will flow from that.

Until the first accident, which I think is inevitable.

won't stop anything. It never does.

Seen many passenger zepplins lately?

[Crazy_Ivan80]

babysteps. The "keeping up with the joneses"-model will make sure that space-tourism gets cheaper. Much of the rest will flow from that.

Until the first accident, which I think is inevitable.

won't stop anything. It never does.

Seen many passenger zepplins lately?

didn't stop airtravel one bit. With or without the hindenburg disaster zeppelins would have been superceded by airplanes. Nothing was stopped in other words.

[Neil]

There are a lot of recent startups moving into the launch business as of late, and they're getting lots of investment. Space X especially has been very successful.

They haven't done shit other than launch satellites, and we'll see how that works out for them.