1/
Let me explain @hughhowey 's argument, and then rebut it.https://twitter.com/hughhowey/status/1134540120877649921 …
-
-
7/ Street food in diverse vibrant neighborhoods IS good. And if you're wealthy enough you can have your servant prepare it for you ... or, in 5-15 years, your robot chef. As
@pmarca says "software is eating the world". Settlers in L-5, on the moon, on Mars will certainly >>>Show this thread -
8/ consume the cooking IP generated by people on Earth, but you can send a recipe over a laser data link just fine. Re "space travel is expensive" - so is transoceanic travel. So is air travel. So is car travel. Back in 1850 only the rich could travel to Europe for vacation.
Show this thread -
9/ In 1905 only the rich could drive cars from city to city. In 1930 only the rich could fly on airplanes. In 2019 only the rich can fly to the ISS. However, technology keeps compounding. I don't need to make a hardline extropian / singularity argument, just note compounding
Show this thread -
10/ In 1969 it took 3% of the GDP of the only country that survived WWII unscathed - for ten years - to get cargo into orbit reliably, at tens of thousands of dollars per pound. In 2019 multiple entrepreneurs are competing on price to do the same.
Show this thread -
11/ Are tickets to the ISS / Hilton going to be $500 per person, and $200 per night by next week? Certainly not. ...but there is a list price today, and that's $52 M. This is driven entirely by technology. Apply the "rule of 72". Assume costs drop 5%/yr. >>>
Show this thread -
12/ Which is entirely reasonable and if anything conservative. Look at the costs of other technologies over time. So, 5% / yr means cost halves ever 14 years. So cost of $52M visit drops to $10k (pocket change for the upper middle class) in about 9 halvings. 9 x 14 = 126 years.
Show this thread -
13/ So, by 2019 + 126 = 2145 AD, I expect that trips to LEO for vacation will be about as exotic as trips to Europe or Mexico City are today. Which in turn implies that there will be MASSIVE settlement in Earth Orbit and on the moon, and some noticeable human population further
Show this thread -
14/ Also, this is key:https://twitter.com/ItsRobbAllen/status/1143145855987441670 …
Show this thread -
15/ Multi millionaires don't own 1,000 acre ranches outside of Jackson Hole, and billionaires don't own islands because street food is so excellent and "the world needs their money closer to home". They own these things because people are gross and loud.
Show this thread -
16/ OK, just saw the clock. Need to work. More later, perhaps.
Show this thread -
-
18/ "he said nothing about vibrant street food" rebuttal: he said "the HEDONISM OF CITIES, where SO MANY FOODS, social connections, and types of entertainment can be enjoyed for LITTLE COST." so, yes, he didhttps://twitter.com/hughhowey/status/1134540181363679235 …
Show this thread -
24/ Also, note that Hugh Howey wants YOU to live in the cities, surrounded by swams of other people. Where does HH - rich from writing SF novels - live? Why on a yacht, by himself, so he doesn't have to live in the cities! https://www.sailingtoday.co.uk/cruising/cruising-stories/hugh-howey/ …pic.twitter.com/RMTEGHB41n
Show this thread -
25/ Freedom-minded working class people have always chafed under the yoke and dreamed of Exit. Elites have ALWAYS hate idea of Exit. From sending bounty hunters after African slaves or Scots Irish who released themselves from indentured service under their own recognizance to >
Show this thread -
26/ Lincoln killing off 3% of the US population to defend the sacred principle that every knee must bow to the federal government, the elites are NEVER willing to let people go. The hilarious thing tho is that HH thinks of himself as a prole revolutionary. He dislikes >
Show this thread -
27/ rich people and their yachts (even as he lives on a catamaran and travels the world), because they physically reify a class structure, with hot tubs up top and kitchens below. ...as if HH living on a yacht and urban poor living in projects doesn't do the same!
Show this thread -
29/ What percent of England's population had emigrated to North America by 1600? Did this mean that North America was a "graveyard", with no future?
https://twitter.com/hughhowey/status/1143202496237621258 …Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
A THREAD ABOUT LIVING IN SPACE