While these projects will never succeed, there’s a lot of money into lobbying for getting them funds for technical analysis, environmental impact and other paper work related things.
Worst things that can happen is they produce a budget out of their asses, and one month into construction there’s an oopsies and actually the budget is more than estimated. 5 years in, we’re 10% complete but already spent 500% of the budget. Like any airport, hospital or rail project.
Ah yes the “skip the realities of building orbital megastructures” phase of capitalism.
Can we get like, uh, a space elevator first?
While these projects will never succeed, there’s a lot of money into lobbying for getting them funds for technical analysis, environmental impact and other paper work related things.
Worst things that can happen is they produce a budget out of their asses, and one month into construction there’s an oopsies and actually the budget is more than estimated. 5 years in, we’re 10% complete but already spent 500% of the budget. Like any airport, hospital or rail project.