[extropy-chat] Slashdot draft: Prediction markets and space development

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> However, one big cargo that is entirely worth $10k/kg launch costs is
> bucky fiber cable. Building a skyhook will provide such a high return
> on investment that putting a few million kg of such cable into orbit
> will entirely pay for itself handsomely.

Only by, in and of itself, reducing costs to get things into orbit.
Indeed, once you get a few kg into orbit, you can use that to haul the
rest up at much lower cost (slowly, in small chunks, with time for the
high-efficiency but low-thrust orbit adjustment mechanics to reset the
system between hauls).