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Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality (www.bbc.com)
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[โ€“] Passerby6497@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That we aren't working on solving our many crises has nothing to do with whether or not we're in space. You're tying together two issues that have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

Climate change and space travel are literally opposing goals. If we send people to space, we add more greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere. If we stop polluting the atmosphere with dead dino farts we cant get people into space.

[โ€“] hoch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The end goal of manufacturing stuff in space is so we don't have to waste resources to get stuff to orbit. If we can extract resources from asteroids, then we can just build up there without needing countless rocket launches and further pollution of our environment. The sooner we can become self-sustaining in space, the better.