Could SpaceX solve world hungry by creating farms in space? By creating artificial gravity stations and farming with the infinite solar energy of the sun would be easy.From Space the logistics of distributing food globally would be easy. There is not a need for trains or boats and airplanes the food can be dropped down to Earth to land exactly where it is needed.There is no bad weather and bad harvest. No disaster and storms. No pest and vermins. It is the perfect environment for farming. This is bullish use case no?
>>62283335If they're getting serious about orbital platforms for power, asteroid mining, and space based automated manufacturing, instead of the stupid "Mars Mars Mars" push, then I'm more bullish on them than I was ~8 years ago.But it's still all stuff that will take a long time. You're not getting a magic fix in the next decade.
>>62283335You're literally retarded. There is plenty of farmland on Earth. The only cause of "hunger" nowadays is politics. Well, that and niggers and shitskins being too stupid to farm.
the SpaceX IPO scam is the biggest story happening right now, it will happen and Musk will be a trillionaire and the Boomers will all pay for it with their pensions being raidedc.f. Patrick Boyle, Thunderf00t et al
>>62283335World hunger has already solved. World POVERTY has not been solved. More people die to conflict and disease than to hunger these days.And no, growing crops in space would be 100x (at least) more expensive than doing it on land. That is without factoring in the cost of putting a farm in orbit.His suggestion of data centers in space was only slightly less stupid and obvious grift.
>>62283335Greenhouses are vastly cheaper to build and run than spinning space stations. Sunlight per area might be lower, but you can just have multiple greenhouses to compensate. Plants generally have circadian rhythms and need periods of darkness anyway. Also, fertilizer transport will be vastly cheaper.>the food can be dropped down to Earth to land exactly where it is needed.No it can't. Firstly, it can be dropped at no higher latitude than its orbital inclination. Secondly, it needs a cheap way to decelerate from 7.8km/s orbital velocity in a way that doesn't ruin the cargo.
>>62283335Elon musk is pimping whores in the space!
>>62283335no realistically we'll just create huge self sustaining terrariums and harvest bugs and grind them into protein bars
>>62283351>There is plenty of farmland on Earth.Soon there won't be because of muh data centers.
>>62283335OMG this is even more retarded than datacentres in space. My goodness.This pump and dump is going to pull down worse than this guy's buildings.
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