Seeing people doubt the technological genius and humanitarian nature of Elon Musk, but have you considered that earlier this year he launched the largest rocket ever off a flat slab, hurling chunks of concrete thousands of feet in every direction, destroying his launch site and a wildlife preserve?
https://blog.esghound.com/p/photos-from-the-spacex-debris-field
@kswenger @maxkennerly You will never get a good discussion out of it.
People descend almost immediately into science fantasy dreams of mining the asteroid belt and colonizing Mars. If you try to bring it back to the economics of doing this, you'll get abuse.
This is just another way that people simply ignore the sixth extinction. Our technological society will have collapsed long before we do any of these things, and it won't be for lack of asteroid mining.
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