[ExI] Spaceflight: The only valid case for waiting

[Giulio Prisco]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 10:00 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 12:54 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Oh, there's a way.  It just doesn't rely on government funding.  Or doing the expensive approaches first.
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> 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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A LONG while longer if you ask me, but better than nothing.
At the same time, we must keep our great expectations for the future
alive. Why there's so much dystopian science fiction around? Where is
the optimism of golden age space opera? Speaking of that, where is the
optimism that this very list used to have twenty years ago?