Business and commerce in space.

There's a thread in this newsgroup titled, 'Heavy lift
design for mining/cargo propulsion' which I think misses
a key point. This point is, business in space may go on
very quickly in some ways, thru use of cyberspace as a
communications resource; but moving cargo will happen
slowly. My point is, *very* slowly, and who recognizes
that detail will profit from it.

Namely, if I ship you a load of tritium in from Pluto,
it will arrive on a time scale of *years*. If I mine water
from an asteroid and ship it to my market at Terra trojan,
it will arrive in a couple of months. At the low end of this time scale is shipping from China or Japan to the
U.S., against seasonal constraints. I.e., *time* will be
a major factor in doing business in space but I don't see
anyone talking about that here in sci.space.policy. Yet
*business* is where space-based settlements will succeed
-- or fail.

Business in space is going to make some people rich. The
first of these probably are alive today; and they will be
thinking about it. What are they thinking?

Titeotwawki -- mha [sci.space.policy 2008 Apr 21]


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