I always thought that, like Antarctica, space (other than satellites) was considered off-limits to anything but scientific research efforts. SpaceX makes me think otherwise though...
The thought of anything other then the very careful and meticulous scientific handling of space scares the shit out of me.
I don't want my sky filled with space junk and cheeseburgers. I don't want scientific research inhibited by idiots cluttering the sky with commercial garbage.
Someone tell me there is at least something protecting space.
We're currently collapsing under the weight of financing regular imperialism, so expanding into space imperialism seems naively optimistic to me.
But you see they need to get into space imperialism to make enough money to pay for the regular imperialism :cap-think:
We can only hope.