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Re:The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive from his ... by justaaron on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @07:36AM (#19908565)
Even given lunar materials etc, if we are incapable of altering our current industrial trajectory from the top down (lack of political will), what on earth makes one think we could direct any space activities from the top down? It's currently sufficient for human leadership to favor selfish and group-harming goals, and there is no indication that this would change in orbit, lol

One currently sees the opposite of top-down coordination of space activities, after an initial cold-war-inspired display of bravado etc. (private ventures contracted to life public sector payloads into orbit) and you can be assured that plenty of both consumption of earths resources and pollution of earths atmosphere and water occur as byproducts. Private enterprise would seem to offer a "willy nilly" approach to anything, as such.

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Re:The sci-fi cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin derive from his ... by philwelch on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @09:51PM (#19915693)
> Even given lunar materials etc, if we are incapable of altering our current industrial trajectory from the top down (lack of political will), what on earth makes one think we could direct any space activities from the top down?

I don't think the lack of a dictator--especially the sort of dictator you would support--is one of our problems!

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