Re: Business and commerce in space.


"kT" <cosmic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6bee3c9d-f49e-419a-92d2-fb9aa0ef80ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Apr 21, 8:11 am, "Martha Adams" <mh...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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?

I'm thinking - Ceres - the fifth planet from a star called the sun.

Why Ceres? Would you place your first settlement there? Would
there be an already-established business network among settlements
more near Terra? How would you make your Ceres settlement long
term viable? How much principal would you need in hand to do this,
and where would you find it? Thru what chain of events which you
would plan in advance, would you become very, very rich?

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


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