| ▲ | enraged_camel 3 hours ago | |
>> It's so you don't have to ask anybody for permission. That's it. This doesn't make sense because there's one party whose permission you always must ask, and that's the government. They are the ones who get to decide whether you can launch your rockets. A more accurate version of your claim would be: datacenters in space allow you to deal with one party (i.e. the government) instead of many. So long as your relationship with that one party is good, your business plan is safe. | ||
| ▲ | piloto_ciego an hour ago | parent [-] | |
Fair (at least for now, maybe in a decade we will be manufacturing stuff up there, but for now, yeah). Totally fair - and with Star Shield and basically SpaceX being the only reasonable launch provider, and a Musk-Friendly government currently in the executive… then I think my thesis holds. The only people who can tell SpaceX no at that point are like 3 nation states with ASAT capabilities? Regardless, he won’t have to ask the “city” counsel of Asslick Indiana if he can “please build here pretty please!” Mark my words, they’re going to build “up.l | ||