A friend of mine is in the business of being a futurist. He's big on space being the next international battlefield between China and the US.
This is a very pressing issue, but I'm into movie logic. Will there be explosions, will people be shot out of space, why would we want to do that?
In the days of MOL space missions, the goal was three inch resolution. Now we can achieve that with Google maps. They have trumped all governments with their Google Earth project, and make arguably some of the most money in the whole world.
As Brin prepares to voyage into space, he pulls into the lead for civilian contractors with the most experience in space. When they build the first office tower on the moon, it is a given, and by given I mean if they are still around, that google will have a majority share in the construction project, no government can do it alone, nor should they be allowed to.
So this leaves me with a burning question, who will build these moon settlements. Most will likely be prefabbed on earth, but one has to imagine that in the future, the first commercial flights to the moon will need to land somewhere, and airports don't come prefabbed. So, I salute these yet unknown workers of the moon. Will they have to pay taxes on their moon earnings? Ahh, so many questions for the future.
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