Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)

• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  #1 is like tactical nuke tech available for all civilians, #2 would make sense if all the production line and consumers are in space too, #3 would make sense as part of the same.

  Earth gravity well is a bitch. We live in it. Sending stuff up is expensive, sending stuff down is stupid when it’s needed up there, but without some critical complete piece of civilization to send up at once, you’ll have to send stuff up all the time.

  It’s too expensive and the profits are transcendent, as in “ideological achievement and because we can”. Also they may eventually start sending nukes down.

  Thus it all makes sense only when we can build and equip an autonomous colony to send at once. Self-reliant with the condition that they will get needed materials from wherever they are sent.

  I suggest something with gravity though. Europa or Ganymede or Enceladus. Something like that.

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Are you a Space Nutter?

    It’s not going to happen. No one is going to move to space or send nukes down or mine asteroids.

    Ever.

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    • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Are you a round earth nutter?

      It’s not going to happen. No one is going to get past the edge of the world or sail the whole world or find new land.

      Ever.

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      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        If you don’t see how that’s a completely dumb comparison, this is hopeless. I’m reality-based, you are not.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      In practice my comment means that it’s far too early to think of space colonization.

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      • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Far too late as well. It will never happen.

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