[ExI] Spaceflight: The only valid case for waiting

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 12:54 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Adrian, I totally agree with what you say here. This is a worst-case
> strategy to consider if we are forced to abandon ambitious human
> spaceflight programs (for you guys in the US, that could start
> happening in a few weeks). All I mean is that, IF there's no way to do
> real space in current political conditions, we must not give up hope
> in the future but keep the fire alive under the ashes.
>

Oh, there's a way.  It just doesn't rely on government funding.  Or doing
the expensive approaches first.

It's called "bootstrapping".  It might take a while longer than if you can
spend a bunch of other peoples' money up front, but it's there if you
can't.
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