We've got plenty of people willing to risk their lives for a chance at riches.
We've got technology that's making it borderline cost effective to survive in space.
... we're only missing in-space mining and manufacturing (at least of the basics). The cost of launching all of the above from the Earth's surface is what's killing the economics.
And ironically, there's a fairly accurate parallel to the resource- and legal- 16th century Caribbean.
We've got technology that's making it borderline cost effective to survive in space.
... we're only missing in-space mining and manufacturing (at least of the basics). The cost of launching all of the above from the Earth's surface is what's killing the economics.
And ironically, there's a fairly accurate parallel to the resource- and legal- 16th century Caribbean.