Editing Space-3

{{comic
	| number    = 5465
	| date      = November 14, 2019
	| title     = space-3
	| image     = 1573739662-20191114.png
	| votey     = 157373983020191114after.png
	| titletext = Pre-Apollo 8, bet against pessimists. Post-Apollo 8, bet against optimists.
}}
==Explanation==
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==Transcript==
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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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==Votey Transcript==
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:(please don't be mad, spacepals)
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