Humans and Robots test case

--- In ssi_list@... "Combs, Mike"
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> Surely, if robotic technology develops to the point where all
> orbital equipment, factories, processes can be constructed without
> local human oversight, then why even embark on a habitat project.
> There would be no need, nor any work, for the humans and the cost
> couldn't even be justified by the need to have workers in orbit.
>
> How about this: the presence of the automated/teleoperated
infrastructure in
> space pushes down the price of space construction to the point
where the
> constructions costs of Island One would be only about 10,000 times
the price
> of the ritzier properties in the choicer locales here on Earth.
That would
> result in space habitat construction being worthwhile just for the
real
> estate sales alone.
>
> Don't necessarily expect it to go down that way, though. Just
speculating
> on different scenarios.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Combs

What would those Island one property owners do up there? Tourists?
Time-share apartments? How expensive would it be to have an oasis in
the desert just to visit occasionally and having no other rationale
to exist as a curiousity.

I may be limited in my vision of how this would play out, which is
why I'd like the perspective of someone who is an advocate
of "robotic development" to share their insights into the question.

TangoMan