Past Perfect, Future Misleading

Manned spaceflight should
be an national industry not a government program.

Craig Fink

Where's the revenue stream that would interest industry?

The technology for establishing, say, a Moon base, has existed for
-decades- and is well within the technological capacity of industry.
That it hasn't been done is entirely because no one can think of a way
to make a buck at it.

If your best idea is to send people on joyrides, you're not going to
motivate industry.

John Ordover wrote:
Manned spaceflight should

be an national industry not a government program.

Craig Fink


Where's the revenue stream that would interest industry?

The technology for establishing, say, a Moon base, has existed for
-decades- and is well within the technological capacity of industry.
That it hasn't been done is entirely because no one can think of a way
to make a buck at it.

If your best idea is to send people on joyrides, you're not going to
motivate industry.

There have been a multitude of reports on the huge store of energy
in the deep sea methane hydrate deposits, with returns as large as the
biggest oil fields, but it's too hard to get to and nobody with any
money will bother to exploit it.
What makes space any different?
IMHO: I'm afraid that space is useless as a source of product or
services.
Jim Davis