The Space encourages our imagination and on the other hand we live in reality. Dreaming is something, putting tax payers' money and valuable human resources on dreams is something else.
I keep reading more on more on space mining. It is an infeasible dream. Earth has all the minerals we need. Earth is full of abandoned mines and millions of tons of landfill waiting to be recycled.
The movies are full of fantastic spaceship designs. The spaceship reality in the past seven decades is shown below. At the end of the day, for almost a century the spaceships are giant gas tanks with couple of instruments attached on them. Additionally, they leave big junks behind on their journey.
If we want to see radical changes in Space, we need vertically integrated big organizations that keep experimenting new ideas. Startups are driven by venture capitalists who want maximum return on their investment in minimum time with minimum risk. As a result, seeing radical designs from them is almost impossible. They wouldn't get funded and have enough resources to innovate multiple new components that make up a radical change.
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