[Changleen]

I recon this is THE business of the next century.

We need to flow these guys more cash:

http://www.elevator2010.org/site/index.html

Then we need to build a few little space tugs and go mining:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-stardust15dec15,0,4339337.story?coll=la-home-headlines

C'mon Bill Gates, read this thread an PM me. Let's get this thing off the ground. We can simultaneously make a fvck bucket of ca$$$h and save humanity (and the planet) from itself.

 

[LordOpie]

what would be cool is if we can figure out how to control a comet, one made up of a lot of h20 and crash it into a moon or planet, so when we colonize, there will be even more resources.

But for the elevator... did you post that some months ago. I love the idea and think we need to fund it more than any other space project. Once it's up and running, everything else will become just so much easier.

 

[Changleen]

Yeah, I did post the elevator before. It super cool and it does indeed need funding more.

Lots of things that would be cool to do on Earth but are prohibited by cost could also start becoming viable once you have large volumes of currently hard to obtain elements and compounds being towed in from space on a regular basis.