I’ve been working on the railroad…
Capitalism comes to the Moon
Armstrong was wrong. The giant leap wasn’t then, it’s now. The profit motive will put us into space a lot quicker than relying on government agencies will. Now we can start the countdown to colonies. 30 years, max. I’ll probably be able to retire to the moon.
Once we find the solar system equivalent of the spice trade, it won’t be just the moon, though the moon might well become the space equivalent of a seaport boomtown. Think of San Francisco at the turn of the last century. I’ll open a general store, and sell Space Levis to the prospectors.
There’s gold in them thar asteroids.
Hell, there’s stuff in them thar asteroids that makes gold look like spare change.
