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Originally Posted by Ithekro
Enter the Space Pirates.
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That's the real ultimate dream:
girls in space... wearing miniskirts.
Yet, if there's one thing that struck a chord with me in that Mouretsu Pirates thread... "Sci-fi is dead, because the dream of getting into space is impossible in our lifetime"...
That made me
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In any case. With today's politics. I had been ragging on the sector of the rich and wealthy, who spend wealth towards accumulating more wealth by depriving others of it.
e.g. bank executives.
But these guys. They're willing to divert much of their life and treasure towards something humanity could benefit from as a whole. And so... I commend this sort of thing.
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Originally Posted by Ithekro
It isn't very likely, but it is a possibility. How one would drill for it and transport it back to Earth....that is an entirely different problem. (Space Tankers!).
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Could still use that space elevator project as a "railway" from the surface-to-low Earth orbit for freight.