<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 4:46 AM efc--- via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Sun, 20 Oct 2024, Keith Henson wrote:<br>>> I love the idea personally, but I assume, cost aside, that there's<br>
>> probably some hurdle, technical or political lurking inside there<br>
>> somewhere.<br>
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> It is the dollar scale of the project that is the big hurdle.<br>
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Well, let's release Musk on it, and I'm sure it will be done in a couple <br>
of years! =)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Musk is free to pursue it already.</div><div><br></div><div>Notice that he isn't actively pursuing it.</div><div><br></div><div>If some power company were to approach SpaceX about setting up such a thing, using the money involved to subsidize a high launch rate the way Starlink has subsidized a high launch rate for the Falcons, then maybe. But the scale of money would seem to exceed what even Musk is free to drop on it.</div></div></div>