space colonization?

what kind of question is this? using our current understanding of physics the answer is yes so anything else is a matter of engineering solutions and political / economic will

>>9068503
The day you can legitimately launch a rocket, land the rocket, fill the rocket with gas and launch it again basically anybody will be able to throw anything they want in space. A job that used to cost $90 million could now be done for $200,000.

That day might arrive during the 2020s, there are two different billion dollar rocketry companies in singleminded pursuit of it.

>>9068503
>The big bang is still in the upcone formation
>Humanity copies this architecture and gradually fills in cone cities into perfect ellipsoids as the universe ages.
>Beautiful

;-;

>>9069050
SpaceX and Virgin, right?

>>9069050
>The day you can legitimately launch a rocket, land the rocket, fill the rocket with gas and launch it again basically anybody will be able to throw anything they want in space. A job that used to cost $90 million could now be done for $200,000.
Nope. The airliner analogy is simply misleading and dishonest. Airliners have a fuel fraction of 25-45%, rockets 80-90%. The implications of this difference as as profound as those between cars and airplanes.

>>9069330
So a $100 car trip equals a $1,000 airline ticket equals a $10,000 rocket flight

Wow, it's totally worth throwing away rockets worth tens of millions of dollars, at last I truly see

>>9069542
>at last I truly see
(You)

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>>9069104

SpaceX and Blue Origin

Virgin is just a suborbital toy

>>9068503
it's all about money YO
If there is 100% chance of $$$ than it will become reality in a month YO

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>>9068503
>is it feasible
We just don't know. We will find out if we try.

The US lacks the industrial and ideological capacity for such undertaking this century and there are no signs things will reverse, one the contrary. The space race is the high point and its all downhill from there.
>inb4 russia
>inb4 china
>inb4 india
>inb4 socdem utopia and antigravity drives

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>>9068503
It is only feasible if the gravity/artificial spin gravity is correct. Otherwise, you'll end up with Jello babies. If you can create/modify an environment where humans can reproduce without problem then it can work. Money and economics are not the real issue, since people are motivated by more than just that.

https://warosu.org/sci/thread/8794047

>>9071377
>Profit is not the real issue,

fixed for accuracy

>>9069552
Thanks anon

>>9068503
The estimated cost for the first Mars mission is +500 billion and they aren't even planning to land, if it ever happens in any way other than having 5 scientists in some inflatable space igloo it's going to be at least centuries away unless we face some existential threat that would somehow make people throw trillions towards a common goal which really isn't feasible even if everyone agreed on it