“I can remember thinking, truthfully, these words about twenty years ago: ‘That, unfortunately,
the space program is all dressed up – with no place to go’…now you might’a guessed, I don’t
believe that anymore. Now here’s what happened that changed my perspective. About ten
years ago I became part of a team at NASA that develops technologies to utilize resources in
space […] a robotosphere which will grow to have an economic output a million times that of
the United States. Imagine a million Americas in space. Then in just ten more years: America a
billion times.”
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Philip Metzger, AAPT Convention: “Preparing Physicists for the Industrial Revolution of Space”
“We don’t have a resource problem. What we have is an imagination problem: it’s hard to imagine making a civilization that can access the resources of our solar system and bring them into the sphere of human activity.”