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Seared_Beans t1_j779rr2 wrote

Reply to comment by bannacct56 in Newly-discovered Earth-mass exoplanet — named Wolf 1069 b — may provide durable habitable conditions across a wide area of its dayside by marketrent

Generational projects, and methods of keeping socio political issues from derailing it all. That will be hard with a species so focused on immediate profits. Generation projects of this magnitude don't pay off quick, I don't know many rich folk interested in doing things that won benefit them before they kick the can

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Putin_Delenda_Est t1_j77euvf wrote

There’s no one better at generational projects really. It’s the reason you end up with an aristocracy.

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Seared_Beans t1_j77sbch wrote

My guy, it won't be aristocracy. It's gonna be rampant space imperialism, you know, like we do every single time we find resources in mass ripe for the taking. Hording resources, and controlling planets in the solar system is gonna end up being their goal. They will have no interest in a project that won't make profit for 200-500 years. This ain't months without profit, this is lifetimes of investment with no gaurentee of a return (because we don't have a clue how possible this really is) the conquest of the solar system is far more likely (and we've already started it) than an interstellar one in the near to distant future. And money is already being made in it

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