6 May 2017 - space colonization 6

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This Is How It Has Always Been

What does all this mean? The time grows late, so it means that space industrialization comes before space colonization. We can’t skip steps like finding out what gravity levels humans need to reproduce. Look up at all the space junk; space is already useful, and mining space resources will make it cheaper and far more useful. Long before we crash the chromium market with asteroid mining, it will be cheaper to use resources in space than to return them to Earth. The profits will be vast, and only historians will look back.

clue:

This Whale is secretly about economic inevitability. All the advocacy is in vain; economics wins.

give me a clue so sweet and true

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