From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 21:22:22 MDT
--- Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> Holy Frijoles! The Cost! Since money/value is
> 1-part, material and 3-parts psychological, yes you
> could start a space venture-but sustain it? I don't
> see how. We need some kind of breakthrough to
> massively, drive down the costs to make
> things...profitable.
Working on it. (Gah, that's almost become a mantra,
answering that question that way. ^_^;)
Seriously, though: there are companies presently
working on massively reduced cost to LEO, which in
turn
would massively drive down the cost of doing anything
in space. If you can't contribute engineering talent,
find one that's at least flying something and see if
you can get some funding for 'em.
Once those are profitable, it will become far easier
to
make further ventures profitable. For instance, I
believe it pretty likely that several people will try
a
simple run at the moon to collect and sell moonrocks,
until the bottom drops out of that market from
oversupply. But let's get the launch costs solved
first.
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