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Re:The First Commercial Carbon-Sucking Facility in the US Op... by Dylan16807 on Sunday November 12, 2023 @02:06AM (#38238048)
That's not what I'm talking about. Pretend getting to the moon would have cost a quadrillion dollars. We wouldn't have been able to do it.
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Re:The First Commercial Carbon-Sucking Facility in the US Op... by JumpCrisscross on Sunday November 12, 2023 @10:48AM (#38241168)
> Pretend getting to the moon would have cost a quadrillion dollars. We wouldn't have been able to do it.

This is a statement of reality, not economic system. A society that decided to divert resources, today, to building a Dyson sphere on Alpha Centauri would fail, irrespective of economic system, because the goal demands more resources than it can sustainably divert.

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Re:The First Commercial Carbon-Sucking Facility in the US Op... by Dylan16807 on Sunday November 12, 2023 @03:34PM (#38243839)
> This is a statement of reality, not economic system.

Yes, that's my point. The worry about "economically feasible" in the ancestor comment is a question of what plans are realistic with unlimited motivation. It's not about economic systems holding us back.

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