alt Hacker News> which is just too far in the future right now.
How much time is needed to do the required research? Like, how long it would take to learn how to create an artificial biosphere on a small scale, so you can have a farm on the Moon or Mars? 10 years? 20 years? Maybe 50 years? Isn't now is the good time to start the research?
No because they aren't a government funded research team, they are actually trying to make money along the way. So the appropriate time to do that kind of work is sometime closer to actually needing it.