Grift on government subsides launching more reliable rockets while using the BIG IDEAS Starship rocket to draw in investor money. mElon runs all his businesses like start-ups so there's always some impractical goal he sells to keep people dumping money into his companies.
This doesn't make any sense. Space colonization is akin to the colonization of lichen in primary succession. You're not taking over anyone's home. The issues with space colonization instead include matters such as: natural preservation, workplace health and safety, child-rearing ethics, resource distribution, pollution of the night sky as well as orbits, attaining human consensus in general (something private companies by definition are incapable of doing!), etc.
I just mean in the sense that their objective is a monopoly on free land and resource extraction. This being Musk, there’s probably a belief that if he’s successful, he’ll be able to exert some form of leverage over earth governments with this monopoly that he can’t already by being a mere billionaire.
What exactly are the company’s ambitious goals? Send earthlings to die on Mars? Because thats whats gonna happen.
Grift on government subsides launching more reliable rockets while using the BIG IDEAS Starship rocket to draw in investor money. mElon runs all his businesses like start-ups so there's always some impractical goal he sells to keep people dumping money into his companies.
The trick all VC startups hate that they won’t tell you:
Raise interest rates so that VC actually has to be careful with spending
First company to successfully mine or bring back a mineral heavy asteroid is making Megabucks.
Presumably the same as those of the East India Company
there was food, water, and breathable atmosphere where those sailors were headed
Also a thriving civilization.
And spices.
gonna sell mars spice and it's just a mixture of paprika and cayenne
This doesn't make any sense. Space colonization is akin to the colonization of lichen in primary succession. You're not taking over anyone's home. The issues with space colonization instead include matters such as: natural preservation, workplace health and safety, child-rearing ethics, resource distribution, pollution of the night sky as well as orbits, attaining human consensus in general (something private companies by definition are incapable of doing!), etc.
I just mean in the sense that their objective is a monopoly on free land and resource extraction. This being Musk, there’s probably a belief that if he’s successful, he’ll be able to exert some form of leverage over earth governments with this monopoly that he can’t already by being a mere billionaire.
There's probably a hard copy of Heinlein's "Moon is a Harsh Mistress" on his bookshelf that he never actually read beyond the dust cover.