Thread: Space commerce
View Single Post
  #16 (permalink)  
Old 08-March-2006, 02:51 AM
Ara Pacis's Avatar
Ara Pacis Ara Pacis is online now
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: between the candle and the star.
Posts: 2,571
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Damburger
But theres nothing in space to be conquered that is worth taking...

Which is kind of my point: No corporation would ever be that foresighted.
Not even an asteroid that has trillions of dollars of metals on it that would only cost hundreds of billions to attain?

You're right. Probably no coporation is that farsighted. That's what governments are for. They build the roads, then the companies build cars to drive on them, fuel depots to power the cars, hotels, restaurants, and everything else on that government built infrastructure.
__________________
"What you think you thought you saw you did not see." Agent J, MiB - Manhatten Bureau
Reply With Quote