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11502639 No.11502639 [Reply] [Original]

We are going live in orbit around those things. We don't need to start the Dyson swarm first, we need to claim territory first.

>> No.11503760
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11503760

>>11502639
>we need to claim territory
What territory?

>> No.11504055

>>11503760

Does owning a gas giant not count?

>> No.11504178

>>11504055
It is completely unrealistic to own an entire planet. You cannot claim a territory in a swirling mass of gas, and territory is normally a 2D concept.

During the space race the military was thinking of controlling the moon as the high position but quickly found it unrealistic and limited value for the money and effort. Same with the Lagrane points, also a position that is limited but again the value is not clear.

So the premise in OP's question is unclear.

>> No.11504210

>>11502639
>We are going
No you are not.

>> No.11504361

>>11502639
>>11504178
I guess the first thing people will claim and make a conflict over is Psyche. It has the potential to completely obliterate the precious metal market on Earth and utterly tank the Chinese stranglehold on rare earth metals.

>> No.11504773

>>11504178
>It is completely unrealistic to own an entire planet.

How is it unrealistic? Go send a habitat over there and monopolize resource extraction. That simple.

>> No.11505463

>>11504361
literally any multi km asteroid would do that, and there's hundreds, if not thousands of those near earth

>> No.11505901

>>11505463
Look up Psyche, it is most likely a core of a destroyed planetesimal, and is mainly metals. You want to avoid all the silicates when you do a space mining operation like this.
Over time I guess silicates will be handy for vast solar power satellites.