Space exploration is how we’ll get out of the debt spiral. We don’t need a deflation crisis, we just need a huge new market to soak up capital.
>>535415708A$$teroid$
>>535415708I'm all for going to moon and back for shit and giggles every once or twice a year. god I fucking love the moon
>>535415708Mfw the retards in charge cannot create proper employment and instead feel the palm of dark chuddha as greedy browns take your revenue and destroy your financial stability
>>535415708explorers on earth had patrons like royalty that would fund their expeditionsif they came back having found nothing returning the investment it was a failurewe don't know everything in the system or about it obviously but we know enough to know there's nothing we know of that we can't get or refine from here for waaaay cheapereven minerals and elements that are worth a shit ton now are only worth that because of relative rarity or difficulty/cost of refinementif you found some asteroid that was solid diamond and the size of manhattan it would end up being worth exponentially less because it would utterly tank the diamond market
>>535416468>but we know enough to know there's nothing we know of that we can't get or refine from here for waaaay cheaperThat threshold shifts as soon as we have a permanent off-earth base, and the ROI after that is enough for a serious speculator to justify early investment
>>535416670not entirely wrong, quick bump
>>535415708One gold asteroid sinks the world economy
>>535416670>the ROI after that is enough for a serious speculator to justify early investmentthe setup and overhead are so massive that it's this super long term investment exceeding the lifetime of the investors most likely, so very hard to get interest, and there's still this problem >>535418198 of negatively impacting the markets via supply flood, so you could only be artificially fixing the values OPEC style drip releasing from enormous stockpiles, so the shipment costs wouldn't murder youyou'd be creating another offworld market as well but it wouldn't be anywhere near the size or revenue stream of the earth marketthe only real plus is there actually IS an existential crisis involved no matter how far in the future it actually is, where sol destroys the planet and nearly all evidence we even existed, so going offworld somehow at some point is a survival necessity, and the elite know this (if it's even true, who can say anymore)
