eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoAfter Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square170linkfedilinkarrow-up1341arrow-down120
arrow-up1321arrow-down1external-linkAfter Texas’ blue wave, what happens to Elon Musk and SpaceX? “Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now.”arstechnica.comeicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square170linkfedilink
minus-squarefishy@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoSure, but we’re not doing anything to mine or manufacture in space.
minus-squareHiTekRedNek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·4 days agoAnd we can’t, until we do.
minus-squareCrimeIsLegalNow@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoI eagerly await OP’s space mining operations, which Elon has promised to start doing for a decade but simply hasn’t because he just didn’t wanna.
minus-squarefishy@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoHe didn’t mention the timeframe, he just said until we do; so it could be a few decades, centuries, or even millennia before space mining is a reality.
Sure, but we’re not doing anything to mine or manufacture in space.
And we can’t, until we do.
True enough.
I eagerly await OP’s space mining operations, which Elon has promised to start doing for a decade but simply hasn’t because he just didn’t wanna.
He didn’t mention the timeframe, he just said until we do; so it could be a few decades, centuries, or even millennia before space mining is a reality.