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bart de roos's avatar

super! incredibly valuable work y'all are doing!

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Arturo Macias's avatar

You are the guys making us an interplanetary species:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/QianitTHjKBSH2sXC/space-colonization-and-the-closed-material-economy

However, the essential challenge of space colonization is the construction of a self-sufficient minimal industrial economy. Or, in more economic terms, how to replace the large flows of intermediate goods and commodities on which the metabolism of an advanced economy is based with fixed capital.

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