Asteroid mining is a science fiction writer’s fantasy. It would cost trillion$ to get it using technology we do not have. Hexk, we barely made it to the moon.
With that attitude, maybe we should declare that the current manpower on the International Space Station to be the last mission, and when that crew leaves, have them shut off the lights. With that attitude, there’s no more reason to look at the sky and wonder what lies beyond the orbit of our moon. There’s no hope that our descendents will leave Earth in a few billion years when the sun expands to a red giant and turns this planet into a dead rock, if not totally vaporizing it.
Asteroid mining is a science fiction writer’s fantasy. It would cost trillion$ to get it using technology we do not have. Hexk, we barely made it to the moon.
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True with today’s technology.
But a lot can happen in 30 years. When Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark west in +-1806 ... the railroad wasn’t even science fiction. It was simply inconceivable.
Given the rate of technological change today—its likely there’ll be at least a couple things that will be commonplace in 30 years that are beyond science fiction today.
Just in the last 5 years the fracking revolution has added 50-100 trillion dollars worth of oil/gas reserves to the USA alone.
We can’t even get to low earth orbit by ourselves.