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metalman • today at 11:32 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

economicaly unfeasable for you perhaps, but what Elon is offering is a chance to be in the first wave of routine commercial access to microgravity, 1000kg mass and durration of your choice, and if you can achive the materials science objective to make something, that wasn't, possible, and have a market, then it's just manufacturing, and for many business concerns, negative data is worth the same as positive, because it refines where to put there research efforts, which there competition will have to guess at.again 1000kg's , crazy!, makes building the module SO EASY, mass to BURN baby, go! go! go!


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oliculipolicula • today at 3:45 PM

More of that generous absurdity from you, please. That's your comparative advantage

The following isn't more absurd, in fact opposite, alas. A much better payoff than microgravitated materials research, and further, it makes sense to start NOW

  Evolve bony vertebrates to thrive in microgravity. Use that learning to genetically enhance humans
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