Play Hardspace: Shipbreaker if you want to see what that’d probably look like, considering our current trajectory

Will never happen. Human flesh is not meant to live outside Earth. It’s just fairy tales.

Only if you ignore the opportunity cost—i.e., the number of terrestrial jobs that could have been created with the same investment.

Great, we’re already fucking up this planet let’s go fuck up the rest of the solar system too.

As every new thing.

AI, for example, has created a a brand new job: Vibe Coding Corrector/fixer, people hire to fix the fuck ups of the AI and vibe coders.