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by mchusma 1791 days ago
I like to describe this position as NIMOP: Not In My Orbital Plane.

The idea that you own a view to infinity to me us more absurd than taxing me for breathing air, which is also a negative externality taken to extreme.

Let's put a quadrillion more times the mass in space. Let's build huge orbital rings, and take to the Galaxy. Let's get a trillion people living in space.

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It's usually called the 'tragedy of the commons'.