Here's a basic economic literacy question. If it costs $1 million to put a piece of metal into solar system escape orbit, how much *money* leaves earth's economy.
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Errr, $0? Only the hunk of metal actually leaves? And no longer has value if it's floating thru space. 😬
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it is a net positive for it lowers future space exploration risk and increases people's ability to invest and experiment.
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1) There’s investment risk (ie. investing in a future technology). 2) I would presume there were innovations/efficiencies/technologies founded during development as well. 3) Some % of the 1M would pay for labor along the way.
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*key assumption*: earthlings are putting the metal into orbit; we aren't subcontracting out to a multiplanetary org who keeps their cash in a kuyper belt tax haven
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Depends. Did they put a bill in the Hitchiker's Guide as a bookmark?
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Only the actual raw material value of the metal, which is what, about tree fiddy?
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