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> >More about Space Settlement: Before we begin
> >industrial operations in space, pretty much at all, we
> >need to have somewhere for workers to live.
>
> Sorry, but this is so backwards. REALITY CHECK TIME! Now think hard.
> How many billions have we just spent putting up a few SMALL modules and
> how many billions will we continue to spend to keep it operational. Now
> how much larger and more complicated would it be to put together a
> colony? A thousand times? A million times? How much is 21 (just looked
> up the current estimate) million billion. Even the U.S. Congress would
> consider that significant money.
>

We would not use the ISS/NASA paradigms.

The main thing that makes conventional pressent day space ops so
expensive is the high cost of launching from Earth's gravity wel..

In tghe SSI scenarios, we launch materials from the Moon (or NEA's)
which is a good deal easier (couple of orders of magnitude).

This completely changes the economics equations.

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