Name: Anonymous 2015-11-26 12:50
There's no real profit from spaceflight, even the satellites. There's no market in space. There are no Humans in space to sell to. And the energy and time it takes to get resources in space, forbid taking them for any reason. There won't be any asteroid harvesting... metals so obtained will cost orders of magnitude over what's obtained on Earth. There's just no point, economically speaking... and ECONOMICS is why Humans do anything.
We live in the Sad Age of the Nerd. Too many basement-dwelling masturbators are using the Internet to talk talk talk as of that will make impossible economics somehow *possible*. There must be some chemical in Cheetos{tm} that so often stains their fingers and affects their minds. The space future imagined by the virgin-nerds is economically impossible to achieve. Anything in a shortage on Earth that can be obtained in space, will only prompt the elite to induce privation and war, which will genocide enough of our population to reduce the so-called "need" for such resources. In other words, genocide is orders of magnitude cheaper to implement than space colonization. The elite who run Humanity have ALWAYS chosen genocide in times of stress. That's what economics dictates, and it's what our stupid top-down species prefers.
We live in the Sad Age of the Nerd. Too many basement-dwelling masturbators are using the Internet to talk talk talk as of that will make impossible economics somehow *possible*. There must be some chemical in Cheetos{tm} that so often stains their fingers and affects their minds. The space future imagined by the virgin-nerds is economically impossible to achieve. Anything in a shortage on Earth that can be obtained in space, will only prompt the elite to induce privation and war, which will genocide enough of our population to reduce the so-called "need" for such resources. In other words, genocide is orders of magnitude cheaper to implement than space colonization. The elite who run Humanity have ALWAYS chosen genocide in times of stress. That's what economics dictates, and it's what our stupid top-down species prefers.