This is Bezos vision (or the vision of the guy he paid to craft it for him) , anyway at least it gives some coherence to the space effort.
When people are talking about living on Mars or on the Moon, sane people automatically categorize them as crackpots, whereas moving heavy industry in orbit with the help of automation at least sets a path for some sort of ROI which is not the ridiculous "hop in the rocket bro we are going to Mars lmao"
When people are talking about living on Mars or on the Moon, sane people automatically categorize them as crackpots, whereas moving heavy industry in orbit with the help of automation at least sets a path for some sort of ROI which is not the ridiculous "hop in the rocket bro we are going to Mars lmao"