<div dir="ltr">Depends on the goal.<div><br></div><div>For instance, getting CubeCab going would be $5-6M. But I know that wouldn't be everyone's top priority - in fact, I suspect I could not get enough funding to be worth the effort, pitching to the members of this list. This is why I haven't done so.</div><div><br></div><div>Other goals have their own budgets. For instance, space based solar power manufactured on and launched from Earth would cost quite a bit more - which is why I'm investigating precisely what it would take to get space based solar power manufactured on and launched from the Moon (which would still be quite a bit more than just getting CubeCab going, but apparently not nearly as much as the from-Earth solution, once you get to industrially significant amounts of power).</div><div><br></div><div>But most of the goals I see bandied about here, would require budgets far in excess of what could be raised from this list's members. This is sufficient to discount any scheme that relies primarily on raising funds from this list's members to accomplish said goals, no matter how said funds are managed and distributed.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 11:17 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Adrian, how much money would it take?</div><div><br></div><div>John<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 11:04 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 11, 2021, 6:24 AM JF via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>With this being said, why aren't we using them? I mean this in a sense of the people in this mailing list. I certainly love the discussion, but we now have a cheap way to aggregate information and collect funds.</div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If only there were enough funds available to matter. A few thousand dollars, if even that much, does not enable much action on the goals we seek.</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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