Ask HN: How would you bootstrap a space company?

Re:Ask HN: How would you bootstrap a space company? by ArtWomb on Sunday November 24, 2019 @08:19PM (#21624732)

1. Use Deep RL to predict stable 3D protein structures that would not normally occur in Nature

2. Simulate gravitational dynamics to winnow down candidate crystals that cannot be synthesized in terrestrial conditions because they would collapse under their own weight

3. Find novel applications for those proteins such as DNA data storage and computation

4. Design a prototype microgravity factory that operates at scale and exploits rapidly falling launch costs

5. Convince Big Pharma to invest using the rationale that space is the next big profit driver

Best of Luck ;)

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Re:Ask HN: How would you bootstrap a space company? by gewa on Monday November 25, 2019 @03:19AM (#21626316)

I always wonder if hackernews knows the difference between research and development. When it comes to biology, I feel like there is a real hubris fuled by fantasy headlines.

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Re:Ask HN: How would you bootstrap a space company? by nl on Monday November 25, 2019 @04:48AM (#21626698)

I hate to point this out, but:

Find novel applications for those proteins such as DNA data storage and computation

There's no reason to do step 2 you can do this. Ignore the microgravity requirement and make more profit by finding ones that can work in normal gravity.

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Re:Ask HN: How would you bootstrap a space company? by adrianN on Monday November 25, 2019 @02:47AM (#21626203)

Each one of those steps is a billion dollar company.

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Re:Ask HN: How would you bootstrap a space company? by sincerely on Monday November 25, 2019 @08:25AM (#21627868)

Sounds like a 5 billion dollar company in the making then! :)

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Re:Ask HN: How would you bootstrap a space company? by markovian on Sunday November 24, 2019 @08:27PM (#21624760)

Thanks, very interesting. Could you develop steps 2 and 4?

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Re:Ask HN: How would you bootstrap a space company? by ackbar03 on Monday November 25, 2019 @03:38AM (#21626395)

Wait, which step is profit? Or is that step 0?

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