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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As well it’s important to develop this technology on our planet for when we become an interplanetary species. Being able to quickly surround a habitable planet with infrastructure that can beam network, position, even power directly down to the surface without interference is hyper critical. EMS will also love this for when natural disasters strike and communication via ground based systems is knocked out. This is ultimately the direction we will be heading in for future points, but making satellites that encompass multiple things. However it’s important that any company, or even government, operating in space should have to pay into some sort of UN fund for cleaning space junk as it is becoming a problem and it’s so easy for companies to launch stuff in space and avoid any consequences when it turns to junk.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like your optimism. I think we monkeys all die on this rock.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I dare to believe we can exile at least a couple of billionaires to Mars before that happens.