Futurists have their heads in the clouds

Re:Futurists have their heads in the clouds by paulryanrogers on Friday November 19, 2021 @12:15AM (#29274057)

Thanks for pointing that out. Guess I forgot that 'if' when I read:

> There are absolutely exploitable resources there; they are just irrelevant...

Because I haven't read of any human-sustaining resources except some ice. Rather that analyzed samples of the soil and atmosphere are too toxic and radiation at the surface too high.

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Re:Futurists have their heads in the clouds by caconym_ on Friday November 19, 2021 @12:50AM (#29274249)

It's definitely not an easy place to live. My understanding is that even in a best case scenario where everything you need turns out to be theoretically available, you'll need a bunch of currently-speculative industrial processes to extract it at scale.

I'm not convinced it's intractable, though, especially with a few more decades of progress in industrial automation.

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