What are the sad facts about space travel?
We’ve already sent space probes that are reaching the boundaries of our solar system. We just haven’t sent people yet. You know, the guy who wrote that book probably wasn’t aware that there’s a trillion dollars-worth of metals in the average 1-kilometer asteroid. Sure it’s economically feasible. as feasible as bringing it up from miles beneath the Earth, which is what people do now. But more environmentally friendly, because asteroids have no ecosystems to pollute. Physics… is an inconvience. There are workarounds to that, too. A great writer and scientist once wrote: “If a distinguished scientist tells you that something is possible, he is very probably right. If the same distinguished scientists tells you that something is impossible, he is very probably WRONG.” Traveling at 15 mph used to be considered “impossible.” Then it was breaking the speed of sound. Then it was space flight. Then landing on the Moon. Economics change. You let me build a fleet of solar satellites to harness
