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“potentially makes humans inter-planetary”

What is the realistic, non-science fiction appeal of this?

I would wager minerals mining and tourism are probably the only meaningful revenue sources in our lifetimes.

Tourism to Mars and back (this is the easiest interplanetary travel) means years confined in a space rocket just to circle around Mars and get back (it is not possible to land on Mars and get back). Not that appealing…

I know the GP mentioned making humans interplanetary, but I mostly just interpreted this as “more spacefaring”. By tourism I really just meant something along the lines of orbiting hotels.

Don’t worry man, the LLM’s will invent FTL travel before 2030. Trust me.

Going to orbit is actually useful already, cf starlink

Yeah, I meant in addition to what we’re already doing.

I do think that will reach diminishing returns at some point. Kessler syndrome is a real thing for long-term higher orbits.

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