Yes there is a better way to develop tech without knowingly sending a group of people to their deaths.
We could throw 100s of billions of dollars into it.
But it’s harder to sell to investors than language models
We could throw 100s of billions of dollars into it.
But it’s harder to sell to investors than language models
Obviously we don’t send a group without making it not certain death first. But the person I was responding to said that it would be reliant on Earth, which, yeah, you can’t realistically develop a fully self reliant economy without making a reliant economy first.
My first question is: would you be enthusiastic about the concept of a lunar colony?
My second question is: what kinds of things do you think are viable for a colony made within the next 50 years?
I think Starship makes colonies a whole lot more viable, once they iron out the issues, but I generally don't know enough to answer your second question.
How long do you think it takes to plan a trip to the moon?
> I think Starship makes colonies a whole lot more viable
Why?
Starship’s goal is to drop cost of mass to orbit by a couple of orders of magnitude, if they pull that off, it would drop the cost of supporting a colony by quite a bit.