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Title text: Pre-Apollo 8, bet against pessimists. Post-Apollo 8, bet against optimists.

Votey

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The of space travel were satellite is booming space launch is profitable tourism is growth industry in the next decade

But the economics of deep space travel are elousy

Mining space isn't worth the trip space doesn't contain anything at valuable concentration space solar power is more expensive than earth- based solar power

What's the best reason to go to mars?

Weird rich people want to

That may not be sustainable

Consulted. With scientists engineers, mat thematicians. We all had variations on the same conversation

We'll get a city on mars in decade or so

How-

Step one is nuclear thermai reactor systems in orbit

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Whol pay for that.

Yawn

Then, talked to an economist

Everyone's too optimistic

Have you heard of the concept of betting

We set up booths at every space conference

Space

Anyone who believed ina nearterm large human presence in space was given excellent odds

Bets Menu 10-Person Moon base in years: 1000:1 Person Mars base

10 in Person years. 10%, Factory years: 100.000.1 in

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Anger brought them to us pride opened their wallets. Venus is loaded with wind power. We'll have turbines there shortly

Wow! That is breathiaking am willing to give you infinity to odds

Neil degrasse tyson once said the first person to mone tize deep space would be the first trillionaire technically he was right.

Deep space was a zero dollar industry the last five years, you've made how many dollars?

Most of them

Course there was a downside

Ma'am, the entire space community s now both bankrupt and sad and there's nothing more upsetting than a grown man in novelty space suit weeping

God in heaven

And so, our moment came

I am hereby announcing my trillion dollars of bet money will go toward the creation of the first martiancity/

There were those who said it wasn't stainable

But we proved them all wrong

Yes 100,000:1 on a mercury base in the next 5 years will accept payment in the form of 2 animals of each in

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(please don't be mad, spacepals)

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