4 thoughts on “Sir Walter Raleigh And Sir Richard Branson”
Sounds like a rather strained analogy to me. I don’t recall Branson talking about space colonization. That’s Musk’s vision.
Precisely. Sir Walter Raleigh, if he was to have done something analogous to what Branson is aiming to do, would have been organising super-expensive joyrides around the Thames Estuary for the nobility.
…in rocket powered boats that fold.
Well enough, I’d say. It’s curious how ignorant some people are to the benefits they’ve received from what they consider wasted money. Especially when it’s private money. Every time somebody disparages my mars colony thoughts I imagine them living in the old world thinking it a waste to pursue the new world. It’s actually magnitudes worse than that since the immense wealth of the solar system makes the wealth of the new world nothing in comparison. I don’t think hardly anybody would consider the wealth of the Americas as nothing, but I sincerely believe that to be the correct perspective.
Of course even if I’m right (especially if) nobody will ever realize it since that wealth will be incorporated in ours so it will seem like it was always there even as it expands. Don’t we already accept that billionaire investors exist as if they always did? One day there will be trillionaires and we will see them just as we do billionaires today.
Where does that wealth come from? Those that believe import/export are blind. All wealth building comes from trade, but mostly from small unremarkable internal trade that makes import/export nothing by comparison. But we can track import/export so that is all people see. Space will expose that misunderstanding since mass will lose to data in reference to trade. Finally the reality that wealth is built by trade in ownership, not material, will become more evident.
That knowledge becoming general will be a new dawn making the loss of lives to get there worth it.
Sounds like a rather strained analogy to me. I don’t recall Branson talking about space colonization. That’s Musk’s vision.
Precisely. Sir Walter Raleigh, if he was to have done something analogous to what Branson is aiming to do, would have been organising super-expensive joyrides around the Thames Estuary for the nobility.
…in rocket powered boats that fold.
Well enough, I’d say. It’s curious how ignorant some people are to the benefits they’ve received from what they consider wasted money. Especially when it’s private money. Every time somebody disparages my mars colony thoughts I imagine them living in the old world thinking it a waste to pursue the new world. It’s actually magnitudes worse than that since the immense wealth of the solar system makes the wealth of the new world nothing in comparison. I don’t think hardly anybody would consider the wealth of the Americas as nothing, but I sincerely believe that to be the correct perspective.
Of course even if I’m right (especially if) nobody will ever realize it since that wealth will be incorporated in ours so it will seem like it was always there even as it expands. Don’t we already accept that billionaire investors exist as if they always did? One day there will be trillionaires and we will see them just as we do billionaires today.
Where does that wealth come from? Those that believe import/export are blind. All wealth building comes from trade, but mostly from small unremarkable internal trade that makes import/export nothing by comparison. But we can track import/export so that is all people see. Space will expose that misunderstanding since mass will lose to data in reference to trade. Finally the reality that wealth is built by trade in ownership, not material, will become more evident.
That knowledge becoming general will be a new dawn making the loss of lives to get there worth it.