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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah but space fairing implies it's about as difficult for such a society as getting a home made car on the road is for us, or at the most how hard it is for a merchant ship to be chartered in mercantile times.

Once you open the door that is figuring out how to make resource retrieval from deep space affordable to the point of profitablity, you've knocked down those barriers to entry since those are what makes getting to space for such a purpose financially unfeasible at present.